The Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently honored AAVSO observers, Edward A. Halbach and William B. Albrecht, by naming two minor planets in ...

We have all heard that good variable names are important for creating readable programs — advice that will serve you well when you come back to your code two years later, or even twenty. Sometimes, ...

Coding mnemonics, which help software developers remember everything from variable names to language syntax, can take many - sometimes odd - forms Now that I’m middle aged, I’m finding that my memory, ...

Other than the obligatory <i>foo</i> and <i>bar</i>, what are some names you always find yourself using?<br><br>For some reason <i>test</i> and <i>blahblah</i> always ...

Pascal case -- or PascalCase -- is a programming naming convention where the first letter of each compound word in a variable is capitalized. The use of descriptive variable names is a software ...

I'm writing a Javascript to validate a form. The form is created dynamically and has a grid of dropdown menus, in a square.(3x3 or 5x5, for now) I want to create a loop that will go through each of ...