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A New Chapter

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:26:00 +0000

Good Morning DIC,

So, after six years I am about to end my career in the United States Air Force. I have to say, I am excited for the prospect of being a civilian again. While I do not regret my time in the military, it is certainly time for something new. So, what is next? Well, I have been debating between majoring in CS or Physics. I am...

Sci-Fi Catalog v2.0

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:59:00 +0000

I have just completed my second version of this program, including many improvements. I included the source in a comment to the original blog post. Please feel free to try it out and let me know what you think. Enjoy and Happy Coding!

Original Blog Post -> http://www.dreaminco...loging-program/

A new project: Sci-Fi Novel Cataloging program

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:32:00 +0000

Good Morning DIC

I recently returned from my vacation to home. While home, I spent some time thinking about my next project. I wanted to create something practical, that I could evolve into something useful. I noticed that my father has his science fiction collection scattered across many shelves, with no rational order made obvious. I also enjoy...

Introduction to Abstraction

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:48:00 +0000

This entry is designed to give a basic overview of one of the many uses of Abstraction. By designing your program to take advantage of abstraction, you are decreasing the amount of overhead by "hiding" implementation. I will use a purely logical example to illustrate this point.

You have an office building with many different...

Inheritence Pt. 2

Sat, 15 May 2010 02:22:00 +0000

In my last post I began introducing Inheritence. You will notice that in my last entry that all derived classes inherited as follows;

class Derived : public Base

Notice the

public

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Inheritence Pt. 1

Tue, 11 May 2010 09:15:00 +0000

Inheritence allows our data structures to inherit certain member variables from a Base/Parent structure. In this entry I will only use public accessors, we will keep the topic of protected and private accessors for a later entry. When you build and run this program, you will notice the order in which output occurs. When we initialize our...

Composition

Fri, 07 May 2010 07:35:00 +0000

When creating classes, we aim to have each class perform one function. For more complex problems, one solution is to use composition. I use the ol' computer example. A computer performs many operations. It directs the flow of data, saves and retrieves data, provides a UI for input/output. Instead of writing one giant class for handling all of...

Queues

Sun, 02 May 2010 03:37:00 +0000

A couple of entries ago I began to talk about Stacks. A slightly more difficult topic involves Queues. Where in a stack, data is incremented from the back and removed from the back, a queue adds data to the back and removes it from the front. Below is an example of a queue, documented throughout. If there are any questions feel free to PM or...

Linked List

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:27:00 +0000

I have recently been experimenting with Linked Lists. The code being posted below is very simple, but demonstrates how one might create a Linked List and utilize a very basic implementation. Enjoy and happy coding.

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Copy Constructors and playing with objects

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:32:00 +0000

Now that a few entries have been posted in regards to OOP we can move on to the topic of copy constuctors. Say we would like to create a bit-wise copy of an object, while performing operations on the copy and keeping the original object intact? This is exactly what our copy constructor will do. Below is a snippet of code that I hope you will find...