readability

Are there any opensource .Net libraries that handle Flesch-Kincaid readability calculations? Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_readability_test Not open source, but you could delegate to Word using the ReadabilityStatistic interface . Even if your document isn't in Word to begin with, you could open Word (invisibly to the user), dump your text into Word, and then use ReadabilityStatistic to calculate the statistics. As described in the Flesch-Kincaid grade level formula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readability_tests you need to count words, sentences,

In the case of languages that support single decision and action without brackets, such as the following example: if (var == true) doSomething(); What is the preferred way of writing this? Should brackets always be used, or should their usage be left as a preference of the individual developer? Additionally, does this practice depend on the size of the code block, such as in the following example: if (var == 1) doSomething(1); else if (var > 1 && var < 10) doSomething(2); else { validate(var); doSomething(var); } There isn't really a right answer. This is what coding standards within the

I have a void function that has a lot of if statements in it and all of them are required I really can't remove anything. But I feel like that it could be done better. Using some LINQ.Where , classes or something like this. I want to optimize and express void Smooth in the fewest characters possible : void Smooth(ref int botChips, ref bool botTurn, Label botStatus, int name, int n, int r) { Random rand = new Random(); int rnd = rand.Next(1, 3); if (rounds == 0 || rounds == 1) { if (call <= 0) { Check(ref botTurn, botStatus); } else { if (call >= RoundN(botChips, n)) { Call(ref botChips, ref

Should this be represented in the database as 1 table or 3 tables? I and my friend have different opinions about this so I'd like to see the general views on this. (Maybe it should be a vote for either solution?) Create Table Order // Basic fields of the table - ID (Primary key) - CustomerID (integer, with a FK) - Quantity - ProductID (integer, with a FK) // Then depending on user selection, either these fields need to be specified // (could be factored out to a separate table): { - InternalAccountID (integer, with a FK) - InternalCompanyID (integer, with a FK) } // Or these (could be factored

experimenting with Cockburn use cases in code I was writing some complicated UI code. I decided to employ Cockburn use cases with fish,kite,and sea levels (discussed by Martin Fowler in his book 'UML Distilled'). I wrapped Cockburn use cases in static C# objects so that I could test logical conditions against static constants which represented steps in a UI workflow. The idea was that you could read the code and know what it was doing because the wrapped objects and their public contants gave you ENGLISH use cases via namespaces. Also, I was going to use reflection to pump out error messages

For instance why does most members in STL implementation have _M_ or _ or __ prefix? Why there is so much boilerplate code ? What features C++ is lacking that would allow make vector (for instance) implementation clear and more concise? robson3.14 Implementations use names starting with an underscore followed by an uppercase letter or two underscores to avoid conflicts with user-defined macros. Such names are reserved in C++. For example, one could define a macro called Type and then #include <vector> . If vector implementations used Type as a template parameter name, it would break. However,