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Which of the following programming errors do you feel you make the most?

Survey period: 25 Feb 2019 to 4 Mar 2019

An no, there's no "I don't make coding errors" option.

Option	Votes	%
Syntax errors (eg typos, missing semi-colon etc)	521	51.58
null reference error	306	30.30
Off-by-1 errors	117	11.58
Logic errors (eg == instead of !=, messing up AND NOT ORs etc)	174	17.23
Equivalence instead of Assignment (= instead of ==)	88	8.71
Wrong type	84	8.32
Using uninitialised variables or pointers	93	9.21
Memory leak (and memory management in general)	119	11.78
Other	144	14.26
I don't code.	26	2.57
Responses	1,010
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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bool gets soooo hard sometimes... Mike (Prof. Chuck)24-Feb-19 22:45 Mike (Prof. Chuck) 24-Feb-19 22:45  Especially when you have crazy methods and flags in third-party-libraries, like "useNoVad" ... which mirror the meaning of the bool, because "true" means "no, don't use it". If you find yourself then in constructs that combine those with && and || and, to spice it up with a !, you see a line like if (!useNoVad || (useNoVad && !otherThingsEnabled)) ... and THEN you have a dev that doesn't like that negative version of useNoVad, and he creates a bool noVadActive, but MEANS vadActive because he assigns noVadActive = !useNoVad... if people start to invert bool over and over again it gets crazy sometimes || You know nothing, Jon Snow. || My Android Label (mbar Software) || My Android Apps in Play Store Re: bool gets soooo hard sometimes... James McCullough27-Feb-19 3:30 James McCullough 27-Feb-19 3:30  False. Re: bool gets soooo hard sometimes... Mike (Prof. Chuck)27-Feb-19 4:49 Mike (Prof. Chuck) 27-Feb-19 4:49  oh nooo that's !true || You know nothing, Jon Snow. || My Android Label (mbar Software) || My Android Apps in Play Store The biggest problem for me ... Mehdi Gholam24-Feb-19 22:34 Mehdi Gholam 24-Feb-19 22:34  ... is assuming it works and not testing, which usually results in a single line change to get it working. Strangely most of my fixes are one liners, da-dum. Object reference is not set to an instance of object koolprasad200324-Feb-19 22:24 koolprasad2003 24-Feb-19 22:24  Missing option "Object reference is not set to an instance of object" Three cheers for this error Find More .Net development tips at : .NET Tips The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. Re: Object reference is not set to an instance of object CHill6024-Feb-19 22:37 CHill60 24-Feb-19 22:37  Covered by "null reference error"? Re: Object reference is not set to an instance of object koolprasad200325-Feb-19 22:22 koolprasad2003 25-Feb-19 22:22  Yes... Find More .Net development tips at : .NET Tips The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. Almost all of them. GKP199224-Feb-19 18:14 GKP1992 24-Feb-19 18:14  I like the fact that you can choose more than one.

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