Detecting dyslexia; via programming?
3/21/2008 07:28:00 AM | Permanent Link | Comments (5)
A lot has been written about it (in/outside the medical community); a movie in recent memory as well, but ... detecting it through code? WT..!I have a few dyslexic programmer/coder/tech buddies and a mistake they commonly make while looping through two dimensional arrays, or such outer/inner loop combos:
for (int i = 0; i < ROWS; ++i)
for (int j = 0; j < COLS; ++i)
// pwned
or it's cousin:
for (int i = 0; i < ROWS; ++i)
for (int j = 0; i < COLS; ++j)
/* these comments look more attractive */
I'm tempted to analyze the reasoning, rather the inclination for doing this, but I'll refrain.
Curious, how many of you do this?
Comments (
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im not dislexic and i still do it
yeah you shouldn't be using i and j they're pointlessly cryptic
anybody could become dyslexic this way
That's why I use h and k.
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