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The C# Interactive window in VS is not the best interactive C# experience, LINQPad still has the honor, I believe, but it is a quick and convenient option for trying out a few lines of code.
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I always feel a sense of satisfaction when I move a piece of complexity from outside an object to inside an object. It doesn't need to be a large amount of code, I've learned. Every little step helps in the long run.
If I could go back 20 years and give myself some programming tips, one of those tips would certainly be this: You don't move code into an abstraction to reuse the code, you move code into an abstraction to use the code.
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Finally! I've used binary literals in real code. This feature, and the digits separator have been good additions to the C# language.
public static byte[] BreakIntoTwos(byte value)
{
var result = new byte[4];
result[0] = (byte)((value & 0b1100_0000) >> 6);
result[1] = (byte)((value & 0b0011_0000) >> 4);
result[2] = (byte)((value & 0b0000_1100) >> 2);
result[3] = (byte) (value & 0b0000_0011);
return result;
}
