What does hard coded mean

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My assignment asks me to access a test txt document  so the file name has to be hard coded to my C drive  I have no idea what hardcoding means  Can somebody please help me with this

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Hard Coding  means something that you want to embeded with your program or any project that can not be changed directly      For example if you are using a database server  then you must hardcode to connect your database with your project and that can not be changed by user  Because you have hard coded

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The antonym of Hard-Coding is Soft-Coding  For a better understanding of Hard Coding  I will introduce both terms    Hard-coding  feature is coded to the system not allowing for configuration   Parametric  feature is configurable via table driven  or properties files with limited parametric values   Soft-coding  feature uses    engines    that derive results based on any number of parametric values  e g  business rules in BRE   rules are coded but exist as parameters in system  written in script form   Examples      firstName has a hard-coded value of  hello world  string firstName    hello world       firstName has a non-hard-coded provided as input Console WriteLine  first name      string firstName   Console ReadLine      A hard-coded constant 1    float areaOfCircle int radius        float area   0      area   3 14 radius radius       3 14 is a hard-coded value     return area      Additionally  hard-coding and soft-coding could be considered to be anti-patterns 2   Thus  one should strive for balance between hard and soft-coding         Hard Coding      Hard coding    is a well-known antipattern against which most web development books warns us right in the preface  Hard coding is the unfortunate practice in which we store configuration or input data  such as a file path or a remote host name  in the source code rather than obtaining it from a configuration file  a database  a user input  or another external source       The main problem with hard code is that it only works properly in a certain environment  and at any time the conditions change  we need to modify the source code  usually in multiple separate places       Soft Coding   If we try very hard to avoid the pitfall of hard coding  we can easily run into another antipattern called    soft coding     which is its exact opposite       In soft coding  we put things that should be in the source code into external sources  for example we store business logic in the database  The most common reason why we do so  is the fear that business rules will change in the future  therefore we will need to rewrite the code       In extreme cases  a soft coded program can become so abstract and convoluted that it is almost impossible to comprehend it  especially for new team members   and extremely hard to maintain and debug       Sources and Citations   1  Quora  What does hard-coded something mean in computer programming context  2  Hongkiat  The 10 Coding Antipatterns You Must Avoid  Further Reading   Software Engineering SE  Is it ever a good idea to hardcode values into our applications  Wikipedia  Hardcoding Wikipedia  Soft-coding

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There are two types of coding    1  hard-coding  2  soft-coding  Hard-coding  Assign values to program during writing source code and make executable file of program Now  it is very difficult process to change or modify the program source code values  like in block-chain technology  genesis block is hard-code that cannot changed or modified   Soft-coding  it is process of inserting values from external source into computer program  like insert values through keyboard  command line interface  Soft-coding considered as good programming practice because developers can easily modify programs

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hard coding  means putting something into your source code   If you are not hard coding  then you do something like prompting the user for the data  or allow the user to put the data on the command line  or something like that   So  to hard code the location of the file as being on the C  drive  you would just put the pathname of the file all together in your source code   Here is an example   int main         const char  filename    C   myfile txt        printf  Filename is   s n   filename       The file name is  hard coded  as  C  myfile txt  The reason the backslash is doubled is because backslashes are special in C strings

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Scenario  In a college there are many students doing different courses  and after an examination we have to prepare a marks card showing grade  I can calculate grade two ways  1  I can write some code like this      if totalMark  lt   100  amp  amp  totalMark  gt  90    grade    A          else if totalMark  lt   90  amp  amp  totalMark  gt  80    grade    A         else if totalMark  lt   80  amp  amp  totalMark  gt  70    grade    B         else if totalMark  lt   70  amp  amp  totalMark  gt  60    grade    C       2  You can ask user to enter grade definition some where and save that data  Something like storing into a database table   In the first case the grade is common for all the courses and if the rule changes the code needs to be changed  But for second case we are giving user the provision to enter grade based on their requirement  So the code will be not be changed when the grade rules changes   That s the important thing when you give more provision for users to define business logic  The first case is nothing but Hard Coding   So in your question if you ask the user to enter the path of the file at the start  then you can remove the hard coded path in your code

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