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...

The results are finally in for the first XNA Three Week Challenge. Below is a link to the post in the XNA forum. I will not post anyone's projects on this site and will leave it up to the person who submitted each entry to determine whether they want to release their projects to anyone/everyone. Great job by those that participated, and I look...

In addition to being a predominant language for desktop and enterprise grade applications, Java is also widely used on the mobile platform for developing mobile apps. The main Java platforms for mobile devices include Oracle's Java Micro Edition (commonly referred to as J2ME), Google's Android, and Blackberry.

Java Micro Edition (J2ME)...

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Well i feel i really have not made use of this blog enough, considering how dam good this site and its members are; i cannot see a reason as to why i shouldn't engage in the hope someone finds my experiences of worth. I think an idea might be to track my study and progress by blogging weekly or twice weekly on my learning experiences and...

So, after having a little over a year's worth of programming and exposure to Computer Science, I went to UIL district with my friends, Nick and Tazz. At District, I won third place individual, tazz 2nd, and nick 3rd. :D Our team of course took first place and we went on to Regionals. at Regionals, my score on the individual test went up 8...

As some of you know, and most of you probably don't, my major is Computer Engineering. This means that I deal with very low level code 100% of the time, basically in pure C. This also means that I never get to experience the benefits of higher level languages, whether compiled or interpreted, statically or dynamically typed. As most of you...

Today, after several hours of crunching code, I registered at Dream.In.Code. Not for help or support, but for a quick escape from busting my brain. You see, I'm a forum junky. I own several forums myself and I'm a member at over forty communities. In fact, I'm an executive at the world's largest forum community, ChannelFuse...

Our team's first collaborative game project, Elliptical Diffusion is a quirky 2D side-scrolling MORPG directed more at having a smaller loyal fanbase than being massive multiplayer.

It features your typical MORPG elements such as leveling, skill growing, and questing, though it expands in the way of an evolving storyline and the ability to...

A concept game based on tetris, but replacing tetrominoes with pentominoes. I've seen some games in play on youtube that utilized a few pieces of pentominoes. However, I couldn't find any game that took the next step and utilized all pentominoes/only pentominoes. So I wrote it myself. I used photoshop to colorshift all the pieces the same...

Hi! since as a child i've had dreams of creating my own hardware, games and software. i was kind of less previlaged when it came to resources and other things so I always broke my toys and used the components inside. connecting circuits and seeing them work fascinated and motivated me...blah, blah, blah!

I have joined dreamin code a...

Many of you out there in DIC world will be wondering why I have posted a couple of tutorials written in COBOL and FORTRAN (trust me there are more to come!). "Aren't these dead languages written by the ancients around the time the universe began?" I hear you ask. Well, it is estimated that there are billions of lines of COBOL...

God damn it.

I feel like I've just been robbed.

Yesterday, my portable HDD broke. I had everything (and when that's italicized, I do mean everything) on there.

Some of it was replaceable, like my music, movies, various 4chan pictures, some applications, ect. But most of it was not.


What couldn't be replaced is the hard part...

I have been thinking about creating programming practice arena.

Basically in the arena there are problems you have to solve by programming. The problem is described to you and example input and output are given to you. You then code solution to the problem and test it with the example input. Once you are ready you can download the real problem...

We all have heard about the cases of code Leaching and very well know what it is. Do we know why people do this. Are they not able to generate Code themselves. Code Leaching, we consider the most shameful act and the person doing it, most coward. Once I came accross a Thread where the person was afraid of his Code being lost. The world has become...

I'm working on a game interface course and would like some constructive feedback.
The title of the game is called Snapshot and it's an RPG. The back story is about a college girl, who strives to be a photographer, walks home and finds two unusual guys. When she snaps a picture she realizes that they are not human on camera, but look human...

I First started coding in 2008 Computer Science Class in The University of Western Ontario. I was admitted to the university as a business student however, after taking the computer science classes I quickly made the transfer to the computer science department the following year. I have taken it upon my self to further my programming knowledge by...

Normally, APIs are easy for me to learn. Really, they are. For instance, SFML, which I'm using to code the tile-engine for my tutorials, I hadn't even touched before I started writing those tutorials. It's an easy to use API and well documented. I've been able to figure everything out using only the online documentation and the...

the if command is a way of telling your program to wait for a specific action or condition before performing an action. the if command is most helpful for use in windows form's application's since the application meant waits for you to do something.

the first step is telling it what to wait for. you can do this by stating in the coding: ...