[red_4900]

Ok.I know this place is forbidden for any programming question (sry bout dat)..but for question that are related to programming, but doesnt belong to any language, I mean, general question, where should I post it?

What I wanna ask is,
1 - where can I find tutorial about debugging?(pls dont answer Google)
2 - wats da meaning of 'argument', 'class', etc? I take programming classes in japanese, so when I do research in the internet, I dont understand some of the words used. and my English is not that good either

Now can anyone help me? even if u wont answer my 2nd and 3rd question, pls tell me where should I post those question.

[1lacca]

Moved to comp sci.

[no2pencil]

red_4900, on 5 Mar, 2008 - 03:57 AM, said:

2 - wats da meaning of 'argument', 'class', etc? I take programming classes in japanese, so when I do research in the internet, I dont understand some of the words used. and my English is not that good either
question.

Argument : "Options supplied to a program" also refered to as parameter. example

rm -rf

-rf is the argument.

[red_4900]

And parameter is? could u show me example in C? coz I have yet to learn any language other than C

[KYA]

myMethod(int someNumber);	//function prototype

int main() {

	// bla bla bla 
	int response;
	cin >> response;
   myMethod(response); //pass response as a parameter to this method

}

int myMethod(int number){

   //performs some crap on the parameter and returns an int or whatever
}

[red_4900]

so...in dat case, in function main, response is the parameter? likewise, in Mymethod function, 'some Number' is the parameter? did I get it right?

[Amadeus]

Yes, although they are the same thing. someNumber is the parameter supplied in the prototype (inexplicably then renamed number in the definition). response is input taken from the user, then supplied as a parameter to the function myMethod().

[red_4900]

wat is 'nested loops'?

[Amadeus]

One or more loops contained within another.

[red_4900]

wat is linked list?

[1lacca]

<educative rant>
Let me introduce you a friend: google. If you write wiki as the first term of your search and then the thing you are looking for in this field, you can start using the I'm feeling lucky button.
</educative rant>
anyway: Linked list

[red_4900]

I know. the problem being my english is not dat good yet, so I'm having trouble reading one-whole-page article. and I'm also new to programming, only 4 months experience learning C, tho I can read simple C++ program. thanx for giving the link, but I dont understand most of the scientific term wiki use, and I dont understand the C program written at the tail end of the article.

[rant]all my subjects in university is in japanese. imagine learning high-level syllabus with ur language-level still of primary school level. imagine reading university-level book with ur language-level still of primary school level[\rant]

sort of explaining y I have those problem, eh? not that I dont make the effort, but its very difficult due to my environment.

[1lacca]

Great.
Then let's say a linked list is a list, where you don't have pointers to all the elements, just to the first, and every element has a pointer to the one behind it. To access a random element, you have to walk the list through these pointers until you find the element you are looking for.
In a double linked list an element has a pointer both to the element in front of it and behind it.

[KYA]

Aw, no excuse for my carelessness in my variable names, usually they would be the same...

[nirvanarupali]

The best way to learn programming is to know English first. Thousands of programming books are written in English.