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| | My yellow VW Beetle is 10 years old. It does very well out here in the desert.  |
| | The recent flood of "technical problems" with computers at Delta Airlines, the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal etc. make me wonder if we have become too dependent on these machines? Are they maintained by less and less competent people? Has the complexity exceeded human comprehension? |
| | What are the natural disasters that you have to learn to live with in your area? I just moved from the Las Vegas area where we had to live with drought, very high summer temperatures (up to 45 degree C) and the occasional smoke of a far away wildfire. The …  |
| | Frank Gifford, America's most beloved sports entertainer has passed away in an untimely manner. A great loss for the country and the world. |
| | The idea of this thread is to help the beginning Python programmer with hints and helpful code. Please feel free to contribute! If you have any questions start your own thread! The creators of Python are very active, improving the language all the time. Here is a little of the … |
| | After you got the basics of Python under your belt, the best way to get a good knowledge of the language and improve your coding skills is to start on a project you are interested in. Maybe an image viewer, a slide show, computer generated random or fractal art, a … |
| | Just wondering. Exploring Google's Go language, a modern day C with the Google in it. |
| | Ever since I got a fancy iMac and started using the Xcode IDE, I got hooked on Apple's new Swift language. From what I heard, it is supposed to replace the aging Objective C. I left a couple of Swift code snippets in the Computer Science section about my one-month … |
| | The strange title comes from a skit by Benny Hill, where he tells his wife all the facts she shouldn't know, but she always answers "I know! I know!" Anyway, this thread is suppose to be a collection of strange facts. Let's have fun! Here are a few facts to … |
| | When East Germany fell apart, one of the first things people there did was to storm the buildings that housed the much hated Stasi (Ministry for State Security), the ministry that was in charge of spying on their own population. How important is privacy to you?  |
| | Just an accumulation of worldly wisdom in question answer format. Q: "How Do You Get Holy Water?" A: "You Boil The Hell Out Of It." |
| | This 'sticky' thread is for working examples of Python GUI code. Note that most wxPython examples have their own thread. Please use comments in your code to help the reader. The example code should be usable as a template, so folks get a feel for the toolkit and can use … |
| | I am sitting in front of a brandnew 27 inch Apple Macintosh running on OS X Yosemite, trying to compile a timed insertion sort from my Windows days. The Xcode app is a sweatheart, but there are some Windows things in the code that cause a problem. This line ... … |
| | I thought it would be fun to code all the different ways to show Hello World on the display. Let's start simple ... `print("Hello World")` Can anybody print out "Hello World" vertically?  |
| | Just wanted to know if anyone on DaniWeb is using or at least experimenting with Go. |
| | With just about everybody snooping around your emails today with the excuse of hunting the bad guys, coding to keep some resemblance of privacy is getting important. I will start out with some simple encryption examples to get this started. You are invited to give us your thoughts and codes. …  |
| | Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive are all available to try for free (with limited storage). So far I have used Dropbox and OneDrieve and like Dropbox since it handles better on the PC and my iPad. OneDrive is improving and I have used iCloud on my iPad mostly for … |
| | Once you are on the internet, you have to come up with passwords. After a while it will be difficult to remember those passwords. You could write them down somewhere, but the wrong person could find them. Why not have Python help you to come up with a logical password …  |
| | The idea of this thread is to help the beginning wxPython GUI programmer with hints and helpful code. Please feel free to contribute! If you have any questions start your own thread! For info on wxPython modules see: http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx-module.html  |
| | The portable version of Python (versions 2.7 and 3.2 are available) can be run from your hard drive or a flash drive. In many ways this makes your live easier, since a lot of libraries are included already. Also, you can take your code to a friend on a flash …  |
| | [B]Intro[/B] C is using structures to group data, mostly data that belongs together. Here we have some data that a campaign manager might keep for the volunteers. First we take a look at the C code: [code=c]#include <stdio.h> struct person { char *name; char *sex; char *slogan; }; int main(void) … |
| | This sequence has me scratch my head: 2 7 4 1 4 6 2 1 8 2 What is the next number? What are the rules for this sequence? |
| | I am still trying to take a look at the gtk GUI package and reinstalled the following: gtk-win32-devel-2.8.6-rc3.exe and pygtk-2.8.2-1.win32-py2.4.exe (updated version) I have it down to a simpler error message now. Here are my warnings and errors with the sample file base.py [code]Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:/Python24/Atest/Demo/pyGTK/base.py", … |
| | [B]Search for your answer first![/B] If you're having a problem, chances are good that someone else has had the same problem. Please search the forum for existing answers before starting a new thread. Nothing is more irritating to a long time member than to answer the same question for the …  |
| | Hello, I am vegaseat, the goofy moderator from the Python forum of DaniWeb. I wanted to know if anyone in the Java forum has played around with Java based Python, also known as Jython. Jython uses easy to learn Python syntax and can use the Java libraries. To make a … |
| | I would say Disney World. I always have a good time there. However, a "cow tipping" excursion into Wisconsin sounds like fun too!  |
| | Mine without a doubt is Marilyn Monroe. [QUOTE]"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."[/QUOTE]  |
| | Does anybody have a tested function in C or C++ that sends text to the printer in a Windows Console Application? I would be very appreciative! It would be nice, if I could specify the font. Yes, I can google! |
| | Suddenly I am interested in the tcl scripting language. Does anybody know a good website to learn the rudimentaries. |
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