Comments on: Bellevue AP Institute First Impressions http://www.helenemartin.com/2010-06-bellevue-ap-institute-first-impressions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bellevue-ap-institute-first-impressions You don't understand something until you've taught a teenager to teach a computer to do it. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hélène Martin http://www.helenemartin.com/2010-06-bellevue-ap-institute-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Hélène Martin Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:36:54 +0000 http://www.helenemartin.com/?p=352#comment-273 That's a good point, Gary. But you forget the most important reason not to use Horstmann-style: It's Not What I Grew Up With!!! =) That’s a good point, Gary. But you forget the most important reason not to use Horstmann-style: It’s Not What I Grew Up With!!! =)

]]> By: Gary Kacmarcik http://www.helenemartin.com/2010-06-bellevue-ap-institute-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Gary Kacmarcik Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:30:15 +0000 http://www.helenemartin.com/?p=352#comment-272 Re: Horstmann A disadvantage of the Horstmann-style is that inserting a new statement at the beginning of a block causes the line-based diff for before/after the change to appear as a "delete one line and replace with 2 new lines" rather than what it is: "insert one new line". This many not sound significant, but if you work on a project with a team and need to review changelists before they are submitted into the repository, this (admittedly small) extra cognitive load starts to add up. Re: Horstmann
A disadvantage of the Horstmann-style is that inserting a new statement at the beginning of a block causes the line-based diff for before/after the change to appear as a “delete one line and replace with 2 new lines” rather than what it is: “insert one new line”.

This many not sound significant, but if you work on a project with a team and need to review changelists before they are submitted into the repository, this (admittedly small) extra cognitive load starts to add up.

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