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Shopping Cart design interview task

I won't add to @mtj's comment (I totally agree that an array defined as a means to exchange information is a code smell). I agree with @RobAu that you should stay far a away from those magic numbers ...
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CS50 pset1: credit card classification and checksum validation

Two more things about identifying the issuer (pacmaninbw's report_card_issuer()/the last part that seems too long): There is a lot of common parts • in the ...
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CS50 pset1: credit card classification and checksum validation

Avoid wasting time with hostile input Whenever there is a upper length bound to string validation, to efficiently guard against hostile input like ...
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CS50 pset1: credit card classification and checksum validation

You should break the code up into functions, one of the functions should be to check if each character is a digit and that function should return a bool value that indicates success or failure. In the ...
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Credit card validator code in Python

You are having a lot of code duplication in the second part, for all the different card vendors. Use the different if blocks just to determine the vendor and store ...
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Shopping Cart design interview task

Three points which immediately strike out to me: Mutable double array in the interface. Yuck! This is unclear, hard to read and generally leaves a bad feeling. As you only use it to calculate a ...
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Design Shopping Cart System Interview Problem [Python 3]

Broadly speaking this does a lot of things right: self-written exceptions, (the start of) type hinting, overridden __str__, etc. ...
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Sales tax calculator with branching based on postal address

I think you can refactor the sources as ITaxRateSource like this: ...
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pyvdp - Python library for Visa Developer Program

The code overall looks clean, there will always be debates on writing classes or not (both approaches have great reasoning behind them, of course): Stop Writing Classes (PyCon 2012) Start Writing ...
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Shopping Cart design interview task

To add to mjt's answer: You never introduce the very sensible object Product (or SKU if you like). Instead, you use ...
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Selenium-based link checker for a shopping site

Adding to the Graipher's excellent answer, here are some selenium specific points: you are not closing the browser instances started by the webdriver using a CSS selector to get all the elements ...
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Selenium-based link checker for a shopping site

Your LinkCheck.py can be greatly simplified: ...
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Apple receipt validator

Instead of returning false 10+ times, just return false at the end since the only case you'll return true is if the case is 0. Also, you could reduce some repetition by putting the message in a string ...
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eCommerce Mockup App in JS

I am by no means a javascript/html/css developer, just somethings I noticed, and some things I would recommend as a customer. I invite someone who is more ...
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eCommerce Mockup App in JS

General feedback Overall this code isn’t bad but could be simplified quite a bit. The biggest thing I noticed is that jQuery is used for a few things but could be used a lot more - e.g. selecting DOM ...
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Open/Closed Principle with calculating the total cost of items in a shopping cart

Basics String comparison shouldn't be done with ==, unless you can carefully ensure you're using ...
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jQuery code to total the items in a shopping cart

this part of code var id = $('.quant').attr('data-id'); Presuming there are multiple inputs with class "quant" (perhaps 1 for each row in the table), then this ...
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Using dependency injection for Node payment system

It looks good to me, very SOLID. Here are a couple of suggestions: I'm not really seeing the value in the PaymentRepository layer. If the ...
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Shopping cart in pure JavaScript

Go here: https://validator.w3.org/ to check your markup. You can input it directly and it will show all your errors, just go down the list until you deal with them all (luckily, you only have a few). ...
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Shopping basket with discounts and tax

Thank you for not using floating point numbers for money. I don't think items in Basket needs to be a Map. The line items on a ...
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Shopping cart with discounts

You should have a class PriceComputer that computes prices and their discounts. This should be the central class of the whole design. Then, make separate data ...
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Apple receipt validator

System.out.println vs logging framework as TwiN pointed out, a logging library is preferred to system.out.println as it will allow the user to control the logging. Mind that SLF4J itself is only a ...
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Stripe payment form

instead of manually selecting each card every time like ...
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Filling in the card expiry date from transaction data

Your first version of build_expiry_date_string() will be able to build an shorter notation date from any date array. I would therefore rename it to ...
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CS50 pset1: credit card classification and checksum validation

This builds on greybeard's answer, which in turn builds on pacmaninbw's. I would recommend combining the test for non-numeric input and the checksum verification into a single function (as this is ...
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Class for Stripe transactions

Since it seems you only need the transactions value once, you might as well just make an attribute reader that does the work: ...
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TDD Django - Shopping Cart

It is, of course, important to see the code under test to get the idea of the quality and coverage of your test, but here are some generic things that I've spotted after glancing over the tests, from ...
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Removal of jQuery from script to auto-apply coupons from a link

As it stands, in most ways the code is now much better than the original. Your senior dev is absolutely correct in wanting to use CSS for the modal size. Despite this, there are a few suggestions I ...
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Shopping cart in Rails for karaoke items

Generally looks great. Since @cart is basically a list of Karaoke ids, you could update the ...
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