The Big Programming Thread - Page 395

On November 18 2013 10:44 FunkyLich wrote:


So it sounds like you found the problem with the semicolon. I just wanted to point out something I would consider a mistake. Your for loop took y from 0 to 50 instead of 1 to 50. I'm not trying to be nit picky. I understand it produces the same result; I just wanted to make sure you were not being careless. When programming loops, it can get very tricky to think about all the plus ones and minus ones. I've been doing this for a while and the nuances of inclusive/exclusive addition still get me.

On November 18 2013 11:16 CatNzHat wrote:

As they say, there are only 2 hard things in Computer Science, caching, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

On November 18 2013 11:16 CatNzHat wrote:

As they say, there are only 2 hard things in Computer Science, caching, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

On November 18 2013 13:52 scudst0rm wrote:


lol. They also claim that there are 10 types of people.

On November 17 2013 14:25 CatNzHat wrote:


I work at a company with an engineering team of about 16 and we keep all branches up to date with production by automatically merging master in after every successful deploy. If you could explain a bit more about why you want to apply a change across all branches that would be helpful. Usually you'd just branch off master and then make a pull request into master, and then everyone would have that change if they're keeping their branch up to date with master. They could resolve any conflicts themselves, or if they didn't want to deal with that they could just let their branch fall behind master and then you could handle the merge while processing their pull request.

It seems to me like this problem is occuring because you're all committing to branches and merging them yourselves instead of making pull requests to merge your feature branch into master or an appropriate integration branch.

One of the biggest benefits of working with a group of people on a project is having your code reviewed by someone else. They don't' have to be more experienced than you, or even understand all of your code, just having a second set of eyes makes a huge difference. Get into the habit of making pull requests, assigning them to someone, getting feedback, and iterating. This helps everyone enforce good programming habits, and it makes it easier for you to stray outside your comfort zone, knowing that you can get someone who knows more about what you're trying to accomplish to look over your code and help you make it the best it can be.

Good luck with Git!

On November 18 2013 12:04 dae wrote:


God, finding a nice naming convention is so hard >.<.

I tend to just vary alot depending how I feel on that day, which for schoolwork is fine but whenever I work on larger projects it tends to get all over the place.

On November 18 2013 18:28 Manit0u wrote:
Question: Are there any good IDEs for C# outside of Visual Studio? (don't want to spend a ton of money before I'm certain I can and want to fully commit to it).

On November 18 2013 18:28 Manit0u wrote:
Question: Are there any good IDEs for C# outside of Visual Studio? (don't want to spend a ton of money before I'm certain I can and want to fully commit to it).

On November 18 2013 19:21 ObviousOne wrote:

You can use VS Express if you have a hotmail/live/msn account to "try" it. Fairly limited, though and I've learned nothing about building projects since it does all of that for you (after you google a tutorial to figure that out). Start the hard way, with a basic editor and compiler and go from there, IMO. Really the only part of VS that I like is the intellisense/autocomplete.

Notepad++ for instance since it does highlighting, and whatever compiler for your OS.

On November 18 2013 19:56 Manit0u wrote:
Oh, OK then. I thought that you'd be at some serious disadvantage when not using VS

On November 18 2013 22:41 sluggaslamoo wrote:


In my experience I could pretty much do everything I needed to do in VS Express, theres an Indie online RPG engine written in VS Express.

http://www.netgore.com/

Unless you're doing an enterprise app or something, I don't think it would be a problem.

On November 18 2013 20:16 WindWolf wrote:
While we are talking about VS.

Has anyone here had a chance to touch VS 2013 yet? How much different is it compared to VS2012? I'm primary wondering about the C++ side of things. (I'm gonna stick with 2012 for a while, since that is what my teacher will use in the upcoming courses at university, but I'm still curious)

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On November 13 2013 06:57 EscPlan9 wrote:
Really should just initialize the loop variable inside the loops. Cleans up the code a bunch:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int array[10][10]; 
    int count;

    for ( int i = 0; i<10; ++i )
    {
        for (int j = 0; j<10; ++j )
        {
            array[i][j] = count;
            count++;
        }
    }

    for (int i = 0; i<10; ++i )
    {
        for (int j = 0; j<10; ++j )
        {
            printf( "%d", array[i][j] );
            printf( " " );
        }
        printf("\n");

    }
}

On November 18 2013 23:07 Rollin wrote:

Well I only got it today , but so far:
- Better, but still not complete, c++11 support
- Better syntax highlighting, though still not great
- I like the layout more than 2012, which was shit imo

I am a noob though and I've barely played with it . But for free, I'd say it was worth the upgrade.

On November 17 2013 05:24 Morfildur wrote:


There is a common problem people run into when they start to use foreign keys and from the sound of it, you encountered it as well:
Foreign keys are in the database scope, meaning you can't use two equally named foreign keys, even if they are in different tables. They always have to have a unique name. MySQL has horrible error messages which really never explain the actual problem, so it's possible you tried to use two equally named foreign keys when you tried to use a primary and foreign key together.



There are lots of situations where, even when the item it relates to is deleted, you want to keep the entry. As a simple example, think of a message board. If you delete a user, you still want the posts to remain so the discussion stays consistent and doesn't suddenly have holes. For bids, yes, you'd probably want them to disappear. It always depends on the program.

On November 18 2013 18:28 Manit0u wrote:
Question: Are there any good IDEs for C# outside of Visual Studio? (don't want to spend a ton of money before I'm certain I can and want to fully commit to it).