The Madman Scribblings The Madman Scribblings Syndication Sun, 26 May 2013 21:52:00 +0000 admin@dreamincode.net (Dream.In.Code) IP.Blog 60 A Simple Memoization Function Class. http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4474-a-simple-memoization-function-class/ A Simple Memoization Function Class.

Memoization is simply remembering the previous worked out answers for the value inputted for the function.
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]]> Sun, 26 May 2013 19:14:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4474-a-simple-memoization-function-class/ Exts (NuGet Packages) http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4440-exts-nuget-packages/ Exts

I've gotten round to releasing a set of NuGet packages that have be laying around on my system for a while.
Note:- These packages require .net4.5.

The packages are updated version of the Exts...]]> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:03:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4440-exts-nuget-packages/ The Kernal Of Tic-Tac-Toe (Part 2) http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4422-the-kernal-of-tic-tac-toe-part-2/ The Kernal Of Tic-Tac-Toe (Part 2)

I added a new game state ReadyToPlay because I had a issue with the kernel outputting the blank board.
Public Enum GameStates  ReadyToPlay  Playing  Win_Player1  Win_Player2  Drawn  Invalid_State  Invalid_MoveEnd Enum
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Kernel Basics
What does the kernel have to do the keep track of a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.
I reckon the following isn't to far off the mark.
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]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:55:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4421-the-kernal-of-tic-tac-toe/ A Simple Image Cache http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4414-a-simple-image-cache/ A Simple Image Cache

Suppose your application downloads images and those images don't change that often.
It would be better to keep a cache of those images, and then only download the images you need.


Images

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]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:23:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4414-a-simple-image-cache/ Are there any 2-D Lexers / Parsers? http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4305-are-there-any-2-d-lexers-parsers/ More of an Ask. Is there any 2-D Lexers / Parsers?

All parsers I know read the input text as if it was a stream of characters.

Left To Right, Top to Bottom

Example source text.
 a ::= [ 1 2 3 ]        4 5 6        1 2 3b ::= [ 4 5 6 ]         7 8 9


I can sort of define the grammar like so
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]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:20:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4305-are-there-any-2-d-lexers-parsers/ FizzBuzz in Single Line Of Code http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4296-fizzbuzz-in-single-line-of-code/ FizzBuzz in Single Line Of Code

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]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:30:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4296-fizzbuzz-in-single-line-of-code/ 6000+ Kudos http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4284-6000-kudos/ 6000+ Kudos

Recently I broke through the 6000 Kudos barrier.
So I wrote small program to screen-scrap the contributions page so I could do a breakdown of all my contributions by language section.

Still not quite got the full A-Z in both snippets and tutorials. 
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]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:49:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4284-6000-kudos/ Pseudo-Constants http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4256-pseudo-constants/ Pseudo-Constants

Sometime you need a Constant that is calculated at run-time.

So how would you do it?

Spoiler
]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:01:00 +0000 http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4256-pseudo-constants/ Iterators used unconventionally. http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/blog/217/entry-4218-iterators-used-unconventionally/ Iterators used unconventionally.


I was thinking could the LINQ approach, be applied to getting inputs from the user?

In VB11 (vs2012) iterators where added to the VB.Net, so lets utilize them.

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