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    Began Watching Using Fonts in Programming?

    Hi I'm using C++ and have a question regarding the use of fonts in programming. What I am doing is parsing files like pdf's and other files and wanting to …
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    Replied To a Post in Using Fonts in Programming?

    It depends on the new file, and how the text layout is defined. Does RTF have a defined algorithm for kerning and paragraph layout? If not, then the behavior is …
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    Replied To a Post in General Programming Question - How code is read !

    > One could consider this part of the syntax. Then one'd be wrong, because it's not part of the syntax.
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    Replied To a Post in General Programming Question - How code is read !

    Go's syntax doesn't really cater to compilation times, in any particularly special way. Its compilation time wins come from other aspects of the language design, like its lacking generics and …
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    Replied To a Post in General Programming Question - How code is read !

    Of course it will eventually parse the whole file, unless an error happens, in which case it could stop, or a user-friendly compiler might try to find some more errors.
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    Began Watching General Programming Question - How code is read !

    I have a question about programming/scripting in general, which I'm still driving over rocky terrian trying to learn. The compiler, regardless what it is; reads though code from top to …
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    Replied To a Post in General Programming Question - How code is read !

    Some programming languages are designed so that the parser and compiler can work from top down -- that is, the meaning and compilation of a particular function depends only on …
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    Began Watching Is lisp a legacy language?

    I have been programming in lisp for a while, not as a main language. But i've gotten pretty decent at it. But I was wondering about if it was a …
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    Replied To a Post in Is lisp a legacy language?

    > Has Lisp ever really been anything more than an academic language with very little real-life applicability? Yes. Common Lisp and a subset of its ancestors are not academic languages …
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    Began Watching What is the most powerful programming language?

    Aside from the Assembly Language, what is the most powerful language?
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    Replied To a Post in What is the most powerful programming language?

    Yep, it's C++. It gives you better ability to make and use abstractions than almost any other language and better ability to micromanage the low level than any other language …
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    Began Watching How to learn c++?

    Hi.I'm 16 years old and i am studying c++ at highschool.The thing is i really think what we do at class is really...useless(and easy). I mean i don't think it …
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    Replied To a Post in How to learn c++?

    I think a good place to start is the book by Koenig & Moo, Accelerated C++, if you think your class is easy. Maybe you'll still think it's easy and …
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    Began Watching Difference

    i want to know the differnce between int a=10 & int a; a=10; though both look same and assign the value 10 to the variable a. but in memory theres …
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    Replied To a Post in Difference

    There is no difference in behavior between the two. Both declare a variable "a" and give it the value 10.
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    Replied To a Post in Computer Science Final Year Project Ideas

    If only you had the ability to come up with ideas!
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    Began Watching guys what should i learn to master data structures in c, im a newbie p.

    What should i study to master data structure? do you any sugestions? im a newbie programmer.
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    Replied To a Post in guys what should i learn to master data structures in c, im a newbie p.

    If you want to master data structures, a few good first baby steps would be to get good at basic data structures in C or C++ (graphs, trees, etc, using …
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    Began Watching rand and srand

    In the program below what is the difference between rand and srand? My book says that rand returns an int between 0 and RAND_MAX, which is never smaller than 32,767. …
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    Replied To a Post in rand and srand

    Yeah, on most systems nowadays you can get away with modulus. But I've been burned by that kind of assumption when porting between different systems before, so personally I would …
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    Replied To a Post in [question] Operator overload

    Operator overloading isn't bad. The worst case scenario is that you have a badly named function. It is completely sensible and necessary for many things in C++ that are good, …
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    Began Watching A fault in C++ !

    To all those who use C++ and to the creator of C++ . I want to ask a question . What is the use of the default case in a …
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    Replied To a Post in A fault in C++ !

    The reason is that the language is simpler to understand if every case clause has fall-through behavior. If `default:` sections didn't have full-through behavior (on entry), that would be surprising …
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    Began Watching [question] Operator overload

    my teacher asked me "Why c++/c## support operator overloading and java don't?" I have an answer for Java. anything I read, just said about how to write, define or something …
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    Replied To a Post in [question] Operator overload

    You should look for interviews with and documents written by the designers of these languages.
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    Began Watching HOW THE PROGRAMS CRACKED ?

    I am bit confused where this question should be placed. But I think It should be here. If we go to the youtube/google/torrent etc... and finding the crack we may …
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    Replied To a Post in HOW THE PROGRAMS CRACKED ?

    OP, I think you might enjoy the series of challenges at http://microcorruption.com/ . It is a good introduction to this sort of thing.
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    Began Watching Choosing the right degree

    I have a big dilemma, so I need some additional info. I need to choose a specialization, so I have two main candidates : Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. I …
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    Replied To a Post in Choosing the right degree

    The actual information you learn won't be particularly important. I think the artificial intelligence specialization will affect you in ways that make you a better all-around programmer. Data science takes …

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