💻 whatsthecodeforthat.com

As developers we often switch between various languages, and sometimes it's difficult to remember how to do the little things.

How do I lower-case a string?

What's the list append function called?

How do I iterate over the key/value pairs of a map?

Speaking of which, what's the map initialization syntax again?

Don't sweat it, that's what whatsthecodeforthat.com is here for, with short snippets reminding you how to handle the small things in various languages. If you don't see a section, example or language that you need, submit a pull request to help out.

Contributing

If there's a section, language, or snippet you think is missing or needs updating, please don't hesitate to help out. When making modifications, please follow these general guidelines:

- Content Sections

If you're adding a new section or subsection to /content, please try to:

• add the section or subsection to the map in config.toml in the order you want it to appear
• order the content in order of sophistication; for example, arrays come after primitives, classes come after functions, etc.
• try to avoid language-specific content and aim to focus on situations common to various languages; for example, goroutines are unique to the go language, so instead of a goroutines section it makes sense to have a concurrency section
• ensure an _index.md with title front-matter for each folder
• limit the depth of content to section and subsection, no more and no less

- Languages

If you're adding a new language, please try to:

• focus on popular languages, rather than obscure or esoteric ones
• add the language to the list in config.toml in alphabetical order
• ensure the language is suitable to be included in most content sections

- Snippets

If you're adding a language snippet to an existing content section, please try to:

• use the file naming convention of <lower-case-name>.md; for example go.md or python.md
• limit the code sample to using the standard library
• keep the code equivalent to other examples in the same content section, including variable names and values, use of print statements, etc.
• avoid over-optimization, instead strive for simplicity and the general use case
• the snippet file should contain one code block (marked by triple ticks), and any commentary should be done in langauge-specific comments

Running the Site Locally

This project uses hugo to generate a static website from markdown, so you'll need to have hugo installed to run locally. After that, use the make target like so to have the site generated, auto-reloaded on changes, and your browser opened:

$ make local

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Kyle Banks

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