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!



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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...

Sitting here in front of my computer being bored thought might as well make a blog.

- A Programmer's Guide to Java SCJP Certification, Addison Wesley, 2008

And here is a great code example of that from the same book:

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This will be my first blog on DIC, but not my last !

This year I started with my IT Study on the Secondary vocational education. I follow this study in Hengelo at the ROC.

After i passed for the modules Hardware and Linux, it's was time to learn more about programming. In the first lesson the teacher explain what was the aim. The aim of...

As of Wednesday, December 2, 2009, I begin my journey into programming, never to look back on my former life, to take the paths of C++, VB6, and HTML. Though I hope to always learn more, my journey will never end.

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i have a blog again. i hope this blog can be usefull for everyone.
thank for dream in code member for your help. especially for LeisureProgrammer.
bravo dic ++

So I just watched a video comparing Microsoft's new store to Apple stores, the opening is the same and so is the layout. This is probably due to the fact that they hired the same people to design the stores, no big deal, nor is the fact that they had the same kind of grand opening, hey its an exiting thing, but I was looking at the comments...

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If you have a BLOB image table and you want to dump all images to file, this routine will do the trick.
We have a table blob_image_table with the following columns:
image_name varchar2(128)
image_extension varchar2(128)
image_blob BLOB

First create the directory physically on disk, then
as sysdba execute the following commands,
where your_schema...

I have made a site for this at this site Please visit and help and make your comments or suggestions and help us out.

Now that the fall semester is over and I am on winter break I have some time on my hands. I decided to use this time to play with code. This exploration was a simple comparison between languages and an exercise in comparing syntax. All too commonly there are debates about why this or that language is faster another. I chose to use the N-Queens...

This is the code for "Hangman.xls"

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I created a small computer conversation program, it is still quite buggy. Dont take it seriously or anything just somefriends wanted to see my code.

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Here's the story...

Chris (skyhawk133) called me up Thursday night. Yes, CALLED me...like, on the phone. (I was very surprised.) He left me a voice mail, so I listened to it and he said I should call him because he has an opportunity that I might be interested in. I called him back and he told me about Microsoft Student Insiders...

Oh my gosh, a new blog has been made! How weird! No really, I made it. Or did I!? Maybe it fell out of the sky. No, it wasn't the sky, I think it fell out of my shoe.

Anyway I'm going to talk about whatever random weirdisms I've been doing lately.


What, I'm tired...

Yes, that's right. I am getting back into the game development business! I am right now as you read this recapping on C#. I have all my books out and reading them as well as having open the GT CD installed into my computer just going over some of the applications and comments left to help me relearn how an application is built and ran....

Can someone please help me to sort the values using the queue method. I am stuck don't know how to proceed with my assignment due tomorrow morning. Please answer to this. Thankyou in advance.




public class Lab2Queue
{
public static void main (String args[])
{
int [] initialArray, sortedArray;

initialArray = new int [100];
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Every algorithm I've seen to determine whether or not a number is prime (including the ones I've written) have pretty much been the following with cosmetic changes:

public boolean isPrime(int n) {   for (int i = 2; i < (n/2); i++) {      if (n%i == 0)         return false;   }   return true;}

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I have been programming in c++ for about two years now and I want to start broadening my horizons. I have only had one teacher for all of my programming classes and would like to branch out some. I ordered two books off the internet last night and plan on working my way through them.

Beginning C++ Through Game Programming

and

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What Language to Learn:...