Maybe the reputation points might not mean a lot to most people here, but I don't generally post in areas outside of assisting people with problems, so this means that my points are a fairly good indicator for how many people I've actually helped, and it feels pretty good.

I think back to the first people that I helped with C# problems...

You couldn't find a book title that aligns more perfectly with my blog's mission statement: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate. It's a whistle stop tour of seven programming languages. Each one is chosen for an aspect of its programming model.

The languages are Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure and Haskell....

It has come to my attention, both here on DIC and in the real world, that many programmers do not actually know that there is a difference between a switch statement and a string of if-else clauses. This seems worthy of correction. You may have been told at some point in your path to becoming a developer that a switch statement is "just like...

In order for someone to help you to solve your problem you have to help us to help you. First, post the relevant code wrapped in code-tags. Highlight the code and press the [ code ] button just above where you are typing. Press the Preview Post button until it is correct.

Post relevant...

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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Today I'm releasing my free ebook - A Primer on SQL here at Dreamincode. It is a short ebook teaching the basics of SQL assuming no prior knowledge of it. While the examples and text use Ingres as the database management system, the code should work correctly on any SQL compliant database.

Contents...

I set out to see if I could write a simple Cross-OS program using NASM and GTK+ 2 on Linux and Windows. GTK is a cross OS GUI library, so it seemed it would be easy enough. Holy crap was I wrong!

On Linux, it is simple:
1. Build the GUI with GLADE and save the glade file.
2. Write Assembly code using NASM to load the glade file, show the...

Intro...

Hey guys so I have decided to start blog series where I will be talking about my experiences in Android! Today I will talking about how I calculated the path of enemy units in the game that I am creating. I would like to note that any code that post in this blog entry is still a work in progress and not all the logic bugs have been worked out...

One year ago, I posted a whiny, melodramatic entry about the horrible abuse I was suffering at the hands of my employer when they implemented their mandatory everything-must-use-Joomla-for-a-CMS policy. I am now on the cusp of launching my third Joomla-backed site and, while I'm still not excited by it, I have learned to manage (and in some...

So I've been using Arch Linux as my distro of choice. I'll tell you why with a screenshot:
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ASUS Zenbook UX31E-DH52 -- A Developer's Perspective...

Jam Session with BlackBerry 10!



Coming May 1-3...

There are a lot of threads about doing homework, and about questions regarding homework. Yet we still get tons of questions for the same things over and over... see the same problems over and over... so I'm going to throw my hat in the ring of trying to cover these in one place rather than have so many people waste so many man-hours saying...

Welcome to the VB.net FAQ and Resources Blog.

This blog has been started as a focus for several pinned topics in the VB.net section.

The existing pinned topics.
vb.net FAQs
Resources
Fancy a Challenge?
Project Ideas
Tutorial Ideas & Suggestions

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Welcome to another exciting episode! Today we will be discussing a topic that seems to be a bit of a confusing one for everyone... storing BLOB images in MySQL and then showing them again using PHP. While it is always advised against, we will show you a little demo code for how this can be done and discuss why/why not do this. We will then...

The other day while helping out in Java, I came across this thread...

As the title says, the reason why I haven't updated in a long time now, is becouse I've had alot of things to do. So, what have I've been up to then? Well, mostly work. But I've also been studying, and I by that I mean study, as in school, tests, grades etc. I don't know exactly how the system works in the states, but here in...

This is all I've gotten out of them so far...

A band of misfit heores is gathered to battle a conspiracy using alien powers to precipitate a war between two countries. Throughout the story the identity and alliances of several characters change. It begins with a simple mission to escort a new...

A while a go I got a job through DIC. The job was to create a website for a games company SnakeTakes Studios. I have been working on the for a while have the site has gone through a lot of changes. This was not a normal job and was not done really the right way, but it is getting done nonetheless.

I am creating a front end and back end so that...

MsgBox("Hello World!")

Ok I am new to Window form programming.

I do really like the standard toolbox with the windows look... but I want my own look. I have looked and typed in everything I possibly could in order to find entrees or blogs on making your own graphics. But I only get things like making shaped buttons or turning the button different colors or something...

Wow, I sure am busy and it seems as though I am getting nothing accomplished...

I had this thought today, and stopped to look at where I was, and what I was doing. What I found was that I am getting somewhere, it is just very very slow. The reason behind my problem is that as a new programmer, I am thinking of lots of new ideas for programs. ...

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From what I know of BST Traversals, this order is usually followed if you want to output an ordered sequence. I made this to specifically show how to traverse to find the exact amount of levels a tree has, but overall, it is a guide to how Traversal works as well:

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Well hello guys~

Back to work once more and writing my slack blogs. Today I have the over-joyingly fun task of modifying out bulk email merge service. Apparently the guys who coded this originally either didn't have access to MailBee.NET with all of its present features or were simply too lazy to bother adding delivery notification. Either...

Article name: How to learn programming languages - Fratyr's Absurdity #1
Note: These are my subjective thoughts and they do not claim to be official reference/document/tutorial etc. No code examples here.

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The basic structure of a For Loop

For {Current} ^{As {Type}} = {From} To {UpTo} ^{Step {Stepping}}

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Next

Where:
{Current} = Variable
{From} = Constant or Variable
{UpTo} = Constant or Variable
Optional
{Stepping} = Constant or Variable


Writing a loop that goes from 1 to 10

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Everyone remembers being a kid, right? Always running around, making things up as they went along. Whatever you could find was some sort of adventure, and your imagination could always lead you into creating some sort of game.

Well, what if we were to make games out of more mundane things? Like childhood, with a rule set.

Take this PHPBB board,...

I have been resurrecting my freelance career and one of the biggest hurdles I stumble upon is a pricing structure that is attractive and more apt to close the sale. Today I stumbled across an article on Dzone and it got me to start thinking about my pricing strategy.

It is common for a freelancer, especially in web design/development to follow...

About WebServices

I often had the need to make sure that my application only runs once on a particular pc at any one time, especially with applications that utilise a serial port for instance.

I have created a simple static class with a method that will check if a process with the same name is already running and if so close the most recent instance of the...