Nikolay Kostov's Blog

Lecture about proper use of control flow, conditionals and loops. The video is recorded in 2015 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• Organizing Straight-line Code
• Using Conditional Statements
• Using Loops
• Other Control Flow Structures

A short lecture on database normalization and the normal forms in relational databases - what redundancy each form removes, and the anomalies it prevents.

Topics covered:

• First, second and third normal form (1NF, 2NF, 3NF)
• Boyce–Codd normal form (BCNF)
• Fourth, fifth and sixth normal form (4NF, 5NF, 6NF)

The video was recorded in 2021 and is in Bulgarian.

Lecture about proper use of variables, data, expressions and constants. The video is recorded in 2015 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• Principles for Initialization
• Scope, Lifetime, Span
• Using Variables
  • Variables Naming
  • Naming convention
  • Standard Prefixes
• Using Expressions
• Using Constants

Lecture about code commenting and code documenting. The video is recorded in 2015 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• The Concept of Self-Documenting Code
• Bad Comments
• Good Programming Style
• To Comment or not to Comment?
• Key Points commenting
• Recommended Practices
• C# XML Documentation Comments

Lecture about naming identifiers. The video is recorded in 2015 in Bulgarian and is part of the high-quality code course.

Topics covered:

• General Naming Guidelines
  • The Power of Meaningful Names
• Naming Classes / Types / Applications
  • Naming Classes, Interfaces, Types, Delegates, Enumerations, Namespaces, Files, Folders, Assemblies, Applications
• Naming Methods and Method Parameters
• Naming Variables and Constants
• Other Naming Guidelines