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Pick a project on GitHub that interests you and start reading! Now, granted, you will most likely not be studying from a master, but you never know what you'll learn.
Marc
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Well, why not read what the best brains in your area of focus are writing ?
People like Jon Skeet in his books, in his books web-site on Manning Books, in his columns /blogs, and from the sources linked to here: [^].
I like to read and study code from people on CP, as found in so many great articles. And I "follow" the answers and comments of folks like Pete O'Hanlon, Richard Deeming, Richard MacCutchan, Sascha LeFevre, Marc Clifton, and others, closely: always learning something new, being challenged from them.
I think studying Marc's code is extremely interesting because, imho, there is a quality of "originality" that comes through; he's a man who often takes "the road less travelled."
Marc Gravell on StackOverflow is another favorite "guru" of mine along with others there, like Hans Passant, and Nawfal. Eric Lippert is, imho, like Skeet, a "guru of gurus," and his blogs are great reading.
Open-source projects: Marc Gravell's Proto-Buf; Skeet's YodaTime; so many !
I think reading selected code in well-written books is as valuable as studying other people's code; people like Michaelis, Watson, Freeman, Troelsen, Albihari, Liberty, MacDonald, Sells, Noyes, Abrams, Lippert, as well as the one-and-only John Skeet.
I think the .NET Language book by Hejlsberg, Torgensen, et. al., is quite unique because of its stellar cast of Annotators, including many of the book authors I just mentioned: "The C# programming language" 4th ed. ISBN 978-0-321-74176-9; there are wonderful comments ... in call-outs ... by those annotators throughout the book.
Speaking as an "older" (unfortunately, not wiser) person, I think the availability of resources for continuous self-education today are just remarkable.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Wow, what a superbly helpful reply! Thank you for taking the time to write it!
Your post is one more contribution to the "remarkable availability of resources for continuous self-education."
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I started my development career in unit testing.
One of the things we had to do is code review on every unit (function).
I also had to test it of course which forced me to look at the code / design requirements, and to write tests for it.
But... starting with testing teaches you a whole lot of bad habits. The quality of my tests were never looked at, so I didn't really care about how/what I coded at the time.
But when I started coding, I could use the things I learned while testing others code and the transition went smoothly.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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Study the design (code may not be necessary) of the C++ STL API. (good API design - hard to create inefficient code)
Followup:
Compare it with the Java collections API design. (especially LinkedList methods that use or return indexes/offsets!) (okay API design - too easy to create inefficient code)
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I advice you to write more code, not read. Write everything you wanna learn. In the reality programming is separated as follows:
First half is the "art" people. They do write code. They usually do it for personal pleasure, earning money is just a pleasant side effect. They lead the innovation. As you learn more APIs, platform and languages, as you usually heard, they have a single inventor, not a company. It is not useful skill to find a work with, neither appreciated in most companies.
Second half is the "science" people. They do not need to read and write code, because they know the theory. The theory is really complex explanation of something really simple, which once you learned the complex stuffs seems you may thought of it without learning, but you didn't. You can explain the innovations of the "art" people and can handle anything new you are thrown into. To the company (especially management) you are like fast-learner, so you are valuable. This type of skill is really useful to find a job.
Third half is the "business" people. You read a lot of other people code, trying to understand their ideas. You do not need your own ideas, you follow the ideas of other people, which are usually so many that they will overwhelm you. As you get older (and more experienced) you will begin to prefer legacy code you know, than the new APIs you'll have to learn. To the management you are the one that do the all the work. This skill is not useful to find a job, but really useful to keep it.
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As always, It Depends.
I recommend this a lot to new coders. People learning a new language.
I also recommend learning/reading code that solves problems you understand, or you truly want to understand. LZW Compression was eye opening.
Also, are you reading for a Novel experience or to emulate the Greats? Learning a new language or fine tuning your skills? It all matters.
Are you going to skim and then focus or focus on every line of code, executing it in your head?
Reading many of your replies, it sounds like you are pretty far along in programming. You are more interested in learning from the masters. To me, that means delving down into the more complicated code like Roslyn.
I enjoy reading well written libraries the most. Even the elegance of x = passed || default; to initialize something conditionally is cool. A line of code is like a single thought. Developing such thoughts to harness a little more value than 3 lines of code is cool.
Of course, always read the old C standard library code!
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kdmote wrote: If I were a painting instructor, I would advise my students to study the masters: ... Bill Watterson
I agree!
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Speaking of the 5th - I have always wondered: Does the 5th Amendment apply equally to non US citizens? Can I as a Scandinavian Viking [with a blunt sword] plead the 5th, if ever faced with a US court? Thanks.
Life is too shor
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When I went to the States, they searched me at the Airport and on finding I was unarmed they gave me a gun.
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Although as a foreign national, you are technically not protected by the Constitution, which only applies to citizens, all countries where the Rule of Law prevails afford foreign nationals the same protections in law offered to their own citizens. In short, yes, you cannot be forced to incriminate yourself. You can "plead the 5th."
"Pleading the 5th" is not a strategy that works very well in criminal prosecution. Generally if the police arrest you, there is evidence other than your own words that points to you. The investigation and prosecution will probably go on whether you confess or not.
Famous media depictions of witnesses pleading the 5th come from testimony before Congress, which are not themselves criminal prosecutions. In this circumstance, "pleading the 5th" is a gambit, an excuse given to refuse to answer a question, whether or not the testimony might be incriminating in a subsequent criminal prosecution.
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Only if you are a MLB baseball player.
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Yes
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I am not sure but I have heard of a place called Guantanamo Bay...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yes.
In addition to the equal protection granted in the 14th Amendment, the Supreme Court has held that non-citizens are entitled to due process under the Fifth Amendment. They have the right to hold non-government jobs and send their children to public school. In contrast, the SC has denied non-citizens the right to have state-funded vocations such as teachers or police officers. The SC has also held that foreign nationals could be detained or deported based on nationality, such as in the case of the USA Patriot Act of 2001.
From Does the Constitution Protect Foreigners?[^]
/ravi
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The concept of equality before the law has been around for a long time Exodus 12:49
Since, in the US, one is NOT required to carry an identity card, one would have to be treated initially the same as a citizen. Now, a strict constructionist interpretation of the US Constitution would (should) take note that the nationality to whom the laws apply is not specified, except in the case of who can rule the country (i.e., president must be born a citizen). This is, in fact, a strengthens of the concept that it crosses the boundaries of citizenship.
However - as with software - the human element of users gets involved and elephant's everything up.
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Alright, what did you do? Confess. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Cant tellya. The 5th u kno.
Life is too shor
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megaadam wrote: The 5th u kno.
Doesn't apply to Code Project Forums! Fess up!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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There are a couple things that strike me here:
1) Is the Encryption tied to the chipset such that the FBI Cannot CLONE the medium, and keep trying the passwords on the cloned medium and when it gets wiped, they re-clone it. I know this is how they handle hard drives.
2) All of the phone companies kept ALL of the text messages and phone calls. So, they are looking for apps and communications that are atypical (encrypted). But ANYONE on the other end has to have dropped their "link" to that phone! (If it exists)
3) The 5th amendment protects us from having to turn over our passwords. Now, our devices can be searched without our permission. Interesting.
4) When the government steps in and says CREATE something, and charge a REASONABLE fee. That is interesting. During the stock market crash, one of the banks HAD a set of RISK spreadsheets they built. They charged BILLIONS for the Treasury to use them to figure out the depth of the risks. Is that Reasonable? Is calculating the loss of business, and future loss of business part of REASONABLE?
5) As someone who has hacked in the OLD Days (never against strong encryption). This feels like a RUSE (like the 30 seconds required to trace a call, which is bogus). To convince the enemy that they cannot do this. HENCE the one phone at a time stuff, etc.
6) Does ANYONE BELIEVE that ONCE Apple does this, the FBI wont reverse engineer it, and use it?
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7) Once this is done, NY has hundreds of phones they want opened! Hmmm...
After this many weeks... What is the half-life of the data?
The one thing I realize is that the media is CLUELESS (like the public) on technology.
The IRS is incapable of finding and getting emails for 18 months, which should be easy. But
a company has to drop everything and do this? How about taking care of it AFTER the FBI clears the HRC investigation?
Just frustrated. I understand the "scare" tactic here. But there is no nuke out there. We seem more likely to water board Tim Cook than a terrorist, that concerns me.
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: Is the Encryption tied to the chipset
If I'm reading the details correctly, yes it is. In recent iPhones, the encryption relies on a hardware key in addition to your passcode, in a system called the "Secure Enclave".
The Secure Enclave is a separate computer inside the iPhone that brokers access to encryption keys for services like the Data Protection API (aka file encryption), Apple Pay, Keychain Services ...
When you enter a passcode on your iOS device, this passcode is "tangled" with a key embedded in the SE to unlock the phone. ... There is nothing that iOS can do about the SE: it is a separate computer outside of the iOS operating system that shares the same hardware enclosure as your phone.
Kirk 10389821 wrote: All of the phone companies kept ALL of the text messages and phone calls.
The iMessage service apparently has end-to-end encryption. Even if the phone company had captured the messages, they wouldn't be able to read them.
Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is | TechCrunch[^]
Kirk 10389821 wrote: Once this is done, NY has hundreds of phones they want opened!
They'll have to wait - the FBI apparently has another 12 iPhones it wants to apply this to, none of which are being linked to "terrorism":
FBI reportedly already pushing for data from 12 additional iPhones | iMore[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: If I'm reading the details correctly, yes it is. In recent iPhones, the encryption relies on a hardware key in addition to your passcode, in a system called the "Secure Enclave".
This phone was not one of those.
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