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...

Ok, in reference to the problems I expirienced when trying to read a dbf file using the drivers - Microsoft Jet and VFPOLEDB in a WCF Service ( http://www.dreaminco...1&#entry1661024...

So far we have coded the login and register fuction for exotic animal breeder.
features still to go:

-Pet shop
-Animal room (inventory)
-Market
-Incubator


Aiden

I want to improve this coding in a better way....

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Major Updates:
-Added a Warning Screen which warns you about the game's references to illegal actions (Bank Robbing, Black-Hat Hacking, Virus Creation, etc.)
-Added the Main Menu screen with 3 options (New Game, Load Game, Quit). So far only New Game and Quit work
-Added the main game menu
-Added a sub-game menu (Computer)
-Added a date...

Hie Techies..welcome to my new blog..
U can freely share ur views here..and as I am a newbie..I really do need them.

:stupid:
:withstupid:
...no changes.

Hello DIC! Akasen here once more to bring to you documentation on my ongoing work on Python. Prior to this, I was working in Python on a similar project with similar goals, but the process was altogether very complicated to me. I had a bunch of Classes spread across multiple files, multiple files in multiple folder. I was basically copying a...

Mistake 1.)Coding a OS in vb...

Well hello there, This be mah blog. so far, i've made a game of tennis for two. that was fun. but now i've started making a fighting game. its called to the death.

So I realize that I probably won't have very many people read this but though it would be important to document my progress now that I am finally getting to start my programming classes for school. Super excited that i get to start them but not to sure about the whole java thing. As I want to one day work on game engines I fear that it would...

Hey guys,

Um starting to learn JAVA by myself. This seems interesting. I loved the pc since i was a child. But never had e chance to learn something useful. So Im gonna make this as my opportunity to learn something I like and useful!

Cheers!

The main point of this blog is to provide a record of my learning experience with C (for embedded systems) and Python. This should really have begun about 10 months ago when I started my PhD but better late than never I suppose.

My subject is Atmospheric Physics and in a nutshell the project involves building wirelessly networked (NOT...

Q. How did the programmer die in the shower?
A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.


A programmer walks to the butcher shop and buys a kilo of meat. An hour later he comes back upset that the butcher shortchanged him by 24 grams.


“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
very long pause….
“Java.”

Programming is 10% science,...

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What is the big deal with MineCraft? My nephew who is 8, came over and I had to get it for him. Then I get to school (College) and it's one of the most popular games among a lot of my friends there.

As you have all probably heard a million times, I am new to dream.in.code and to coding itself. As finals approached, (which I am still in the lieu of) I came to you, oh wonderful dream.in.code community, for answers. You have helped me ever so greatly this far, and I praise your assistance. I will be posting challenges, which there is probably...

Hi all my name is rob2k9

this is my new blog i am creating this blog to share application code or tuts to help other people learn or finish there own applications

i am a coder / programer / webdesign / graphic design / hacker and former music maker

i code in vb.net / php / javascript

and it is this that i will be posting so please...

Hey all,

I have noticed on one of the side bars an entry that grabbed my curiosity. It was titled "52 weeks" and upon browsing it I read through and have decided to undertake the challenge and expand my knowledge through the tutorials and see if I can measure up to those who have come before me. I want to challenge myself and push what...

First day on my path to c++ and haven't even read 50 pages yet in any of the books. Spent all day researching books to find the write book to start out with. A lot of the books I've found in the dic c++ section's are good to have in my ebook collection but for my starting book I choose "Beginning Visual C++ 2010" by Ivor...

Introduction:...