EPTThe Big Programming Thread - Page 283
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Thread Rules 1. This is not a "do my homework for me" thread. If you have specific questions, ask, but don't post an assignment or homework problem and expect an exact solution. 2. No recruiting for your cockamamie projects (you won't replace facebook with 3 dudes you found on the internet and $20) 3. If you can't articulate why a language is bad, don't start slinging shit about it. Just remember that nothing is worse than making CSS IE6 compatible. 4. Use [code] tags to format code blocks. | ||
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lilwisper
United States2515 Posts
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CptCutter
United Kingdom370 Posts
On April 09 2013 17:24 Abductedonut wrote: This doesn't have much to do with programming as it does ranting but here it goes. Learn touch typing guys. Learn it properly (keys on home row and everything!). There will come a point in your career when you realize that IDEs are trash and that VIM is better than anything that you can find for text editing. And if you don't touch type it will be a pain to use. Heed my warning! Don't be lazy and learn it! what is this touch typing crap? i thought it was standard to know how to type without looking at the keyboard? | ||
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Nazza
Australia1654 Posts
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Craton
United States17281 Posts
On April 12 2013 20:29 CptCutter wrote: what is this touch typing crap? i thought it was standard to know how to type without looking at the keyboard? It is, but you don't need the "home row" crap to do so. It's much less efficient for many people. | ||
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nepeta
1872 Posts
*I can't program for the life of me, so a pre-fab, ready-made solution I can copy onto a html page would be ideal. | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
On April 12 2013 23:08 nepeta wrote: Pardon me for posing a rather noobish question, but is there an easy* way make a website render either x or y in a certain text? Example: "I met nepeta, [he|she|it] is very bad at programming." *I can't program for the life of me, so a pre-fab, ready-made solution I can copy onto a html page would be ideal. Yes there is. You would first want some data on the individual and then you can use client side scripts if you can get the information from the client side to dynamically change what you display. Otherwise if you are server side you would use php (if statements and echo) or I think ruby depending on how your website framework is. On April 12 2013 02:05 lilwisper wrote: I need to brush up on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and I was wondering if anybody has recently come across a good book for it? A web site would be a plus too if you came across one that you have enjoyed. Nope. But SQL is SQL. If you go through W3school's sql tutorial and practice along with a db you should be fine. | ||
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nepeta
1872 Posts
On April 12 2013 23:11 obesechicken13 wrote: Yes there is. You would first want some data on the individual and then you can use client side scripts if you can get the information from the client side to dynamically change what you display. Otherwise if you are server side you would use php (if statements and echo) or I think ruby depending on how your website framework is. First let me thank you for the response, then let me give you a little bit of context  Website framework is plain html/css, about as basic as can be. The use is more literary than user-dependant, I'd like to make a character either male or female, depending on chance. I might want to use it for an experiment regarding masculinity/femininity of different kinds of word classes. Being able to automate the text bit would greatly lessen the need for stacks of paper with different versions. Also I fear I can't really script myself, just looking around for an already existing solution. | ||
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Cloud
Sexico5880 Posts
On April 12 2013 20:58 Nazza wrote: Anyone doing google codejam this year? I signed up but I doubt I'll even have time to do it/have the skills to get anywhere. I'm doing it. Hoping to get to round 3 so I can score an interview (and a tshirt!) :p | ||
tofucake
Hyrule19210 Posts
On April 12 2013 23:11 obesechicken13 wrote: Yes there is. You would first want some data on the individual and then you can use client side scripts if you can get the information from the client side to dynamically change what you display. Otherwise if you are server side you would use php (if statements and echo) or I think ruby depending on how your website framework is. Nope. But SQL is SQL. If you go through W3school's sql tutorial and practice along with a db you should be fine. w3schools needs to die. Please stop suggesting it. | ||
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lilwisper
United States2515 Posts
On April 12 2013 23:11 obesechicken13 wrote: Nope. But SQL is SQL. If you go through W3school's sql tutorial and practice along with a db you should be fine. I'm alright on the language side of it. I was lookin more for a book on the administration side. I guess I should have been more descriptive. I am currently looking at this book series and was just looking for some feedback of anyone that has recently looked at any other series. | ||
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artynko
Slovakia86 Posts
On April 11 2013 19:13 Morfildur wrote: I used VIM for years and i still use it for a lot of my non-C# programming. However, i always wish i had Visual Studio instead. VIM is great and all but a good IDE speeds up programming a lot and makes it a lot easier to navigate a bigger project. VS also has a lot of nice editing options that most people don't know about, e.g. recording and repeating macros on-the-fly similar to VIM. Have a look at vrapper which is an eclipse plugin that gives you the power of vim inside eclipse. I've been using it for some time and it is just awesome to have all the eclipse shortcuts and yet still be able to do ci) when I want to rewrite an argument in a function. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
Here's what I want. I need an IDE that is *free*, codes in either C/C++ or Java, and can be used to develop Windows programs. For the program in particular, I need to be able to (reasonably easily) create a window, and 4 text boxes that I can easily control (change its values, etc.). Basically, I want something that works similarly to Microsoft Visual C++, except I also need the IDE to be free.... any suggestions? The actual coding I can easily handle - I can easily code in console. But that's not what I need here. | ||
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Zeke50100
United States2220 Posts
On April 13 2013 04:54 Sufficiency wrote: SOS. I need suggestions. Here's what I want. I need an IDE that is *free*, codes in either C/C++ or Java, and can be used to develop Windows programs. For the program in particular, I need to be able to (reasonably easily) create a window, and 4 text boxes that I can easily control (change its values, etc.). Basically, I want something that works similarly to Microsoft Visual C++, except I also need the IDE to be free.... any suggestions? The actual coding I can easily handle - I can easily code in console. But that's not what I need here. Visual Studio is free - just use the Express version. Professional is also available for free if you have a *.edu email address. | ||
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phar
United States1080 Posts
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
On April 12 2013 23:39 nepeta wrote: First let me thank you for the response, then let me give you a little bit of context Website framework is plain html/css, about as basic as can be. The use is more literary than user-dependant, I'd like to make a character either male or female, depending on chance. I might want to use it for an experiment regarding masculinity/femininity of different kinds of word classes. Being able to automate the text bit would greatly lessen the need for stacks of paper with different versions. Also I fear I can't really script myself, just looking around for an already existing solution. Your website is probably using php. I doubt any existing solutions exist as it's a fairly simple thing to do in php, but I think it'd be hard to develop something general enough for a lot of people, but specific enough to your needs so there is no prewritten code. You will probably have to learn some php. http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.if.php Something to get you started (really bad coding standards I'm sure): http://phpfiddle.org/main/code/pb4-sze On April 13 2013 01:17 tofucake wrote: w3schools needs to die. Please stop suggesting it. I hear this a lot. I'm still not good enough to see the flaws but I did see a site dedicated to exposing the flaws in W3Schools. So you are right that I shouldn't recommend it. | ||
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tec27
United States3702 Posts
On April 13 2013 11:59 obesechicken13 wrote: I hear this a lot. I'm still not good enough to see the flaws but I did see a site dedicated to exposing the flaws in W3Schools. So you are right that I shouldn't recommend it. If you'd like something to replace it with, MDN is awesome for HTML/CSS/JS stuff. It doesn't have anything about databases and stuff like that, but I'm sure there are also much better sites out there for that info as well | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
On April 13 2013 04:54 Sufficiency wrote: SOS. I need suggestions. Here's what I want. I need an IDE that is *free*, codes in either C/C++ or Java, and can be used to develop Windows programs. For the program in particular, I need to be able to (reasonably easily) create a window, and 4 text boxes that I can easily control (change its values, etc.). Basically, I want something that works similarly to Microsoft Visual C++, except I also need the IDE to be free.... any suggestions? The actual coding I can easily handle - I can easily code in console. But that's not what I need here. Eclipse is pretty great for Java, and can do C/C++ if you get their respective plug-ins. Don't know too much C/C++ so I can't help you with the program in either of them, but in Java it's really easy using the Swing library, which comes standard with Java. | ||
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one-one-one
Sweden551 Posts
On April 13 2013 01:17 tofucake wrote: w3schools needs to die. Please stop suggesting it. W3schools tutorials serve as a great introduction to new concepts. Stop writing stupid stuff. | ||
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TheBB
Switzerland5133 Posts
On April 13 2013 11:59 obesechicken13 wrote: I did see a site dedicated to exposing the flaws in W3Schools. So you are right that I shouldn't recommend it. I saw a site that agreed with you, so therefore you are right? | ||
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Yoshi-
Germany10227 Posts
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