Pseudocode is a language-agnostic way of writing a computer problem. Its used as the step before writing the actual code for a program (sometimes) or at least a small routine/algorithm (most of the...

I was wondering if anyone could provide any advice on how to create and use a dynamic library using gcc on Linux and/or OS X. I've been working on an in-house image viewer application for the CS...

I have never heard of this switch before. Is that a gcc *nix thing or Windows or general or what?


In my experience a full program trace is not worth your time, as long as you are only working on...

Generally it's good form to declare the variables used in the for loop, like:


for (numStudents; numStudents > 0; numStudents--)


I don't know if the compiler considers what you've done an...

Thank you, that was quite helpful.

Well that depends on what you're using to do all this windowing and graphics work. I happen to only use OpenGL/glut which is windowing system agnostic, which means its not always possible to fully...

I understand the reason for "using namespace std;", I was wondering when and why people create their own namespaces. I also realize the syntactical complications that would arise from using a custom...

Well to start let me say that I'm only a newbie, as my status says, but after a year of C++ I have what I consider a pretty good grasp over the basics of the language. I'm still at school for the...

It depends what kind of graphics library you are using. I personally have only ever used openGL on because that is portable, but it seems like you aren't using that, or are not using a standard...