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...

Greetings,
This will be my first post using the blog system, and I though want better way to start it off with a few Laughs.

On December 6th, I uploaded some Shrek clips form the Holiday TV special, on youtube..

The content might get erase, due to it's copyright restriction. However, it's just a small clip of video, and the loughs are...

Ok, so I've been away from pretty much all types of programming for the past few months. School took over, and I got a new computer (where I couldn't figure out how to install and configure my IDE's/SDK's). Anyways, I managed to get the Android ADK to work, and I was working on a simple program to get me back into the swing of...

First of all, I want to thank you for visiting. Now you might be thinking what is my blog about? Well let me tell you. My name is Fisher. I am 15 and I'm a freshman in high school. I decide to start this blog so people can see the programming world from my point of view and how it all looks to me. Through this blog, I want to let people know...

If you're interested in getting a free .CA domain, here's a link to the post.
http://blog.jimmyzml...-ca-domain.html
With GYBO, you can get a domain for a year for free, all that is needed is a valid Canadian phone number. Not sure how long the event would last though (hopefully, forever :P).

Harry Fairhead - "C++ Going Native - a new monthly show"

Introduction...

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What is the general syntax for using a Scanner for user input?

Here is a new code for a maze like game!

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These are 21 tips on becoming a better developer:

• Learn a LISP variant (such as Scheme or Common LISP)
  
• Learn a variant of Assembly
  
• Learn a functional programming language (e.g. Haskell or Scala)
  
• Read others code
  
• Contribute to open source software
  
• Read and analyze your own code and see what you could've done better
  
• ...

The first months I started to program it was all verry Basic , just to connect with the
c# language , for the moment excercise to work well with classes and methods are prior ,
to have a good base in the OOP , further on the proper usage of CPU and memory allocation will
be in the next few lessons .

Hi All

New Here!

My name is Daniel Harris,
I'm a 14 year old Web Designer/Programmer with 5 years of experience...

hi everyone! i just want to post in here my vb.net code of a simple cashiering system. it's just a very simple system with simple functions. here's my code:
Public Class Form1

Private Sub Btnadd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Btnadd.Click
If Me.Cboprod.Text = "C2 Solo"...

My visual basic 6

blogs are useful, and they are fun, i will type fun things here i hope

Welcome to my first entry in DIC's Dev Blogs section!

Before I start you should all note this code is written for VB.Net, should you wanna use C# then convert it.
However if there's a huge demand for a C# tutorial I'll add that on a later date.
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Simply put in one word, Amazing. XNA game me the tools to actually get my mind set on making games. I have an open canvas in the game industry now. Even though I'm still a novice, I can finally feel myself getting somewhere now. Unlike the times where i felt hopeless in coding.

So, we're getting some gamers who think it might be a good idea to try to reverse engineer games and their save game files. There serveral reasons why this is bad:

• When you install a game you normally (or in fact always...

https://docs.google....iuJFGEO-g&pli=1

I have a link of C#/ Do you help m e! I from VIetNam. Thank very much for yor reply!

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