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Hi people, I am currently teaching myself C++ with Stroustrup's "Programming, Principles and Practice using C++" and I'm stuck on one of the in-book exercises. It is a chunk of code (~180 lines) of buggy code that, when debugged properly, should create a calculator program. I have reached the limits …

Last week the New York Times semed to skewer Amazon over the stress it places on its workers. I read today that Dustin Mosokvitz confirms such high stress work environments and confesses that his health deteriorated while at Facebook as a result. I don't work in IT but I hope …

In my continuing quest to improve my understanding of OPP in PHP, I have developed another project. It is closer to my field and a real life project I hope to develop, than my previous post using geometric shapes. This draft program is the simplest version. I want to increase …

I want to increase my knowledge of PHP by learning about classes. I wrote the following very simple test program. It works. But I would like to know improve it. I plan on writing more complex test programs and that won't be the time to iron out smaller issues. Thanks …

Hello All, My old computer crashed. I installed XAMMP on my new computer. My old PHP files don't run. I learned that the reason is that register_globals feature has been deprecated and is now permanently Off by default. My old files were written in a 'register_globals=On' environment. I understand that …

Hello Friends........ Why am I getting tons of traffic but no sales from my Pay-Per-Click ads? I'm spending almost $600 per month on Pay-Per-Click advertising with very poor results. The ads bring in plenty of visitors, but no one is buying. What can I do to keep from going broke …

I have a form with several inputs. One has a sub-input based on the condition of the original input. An example is: <input onChange="javascript:addRow()"/> The JS function works. function addRow() { Dynamic HTML code ... } However, if the original input is modified a second time, the JS function executes …

I have a problem that includes finding the maximums and minimums of certain variables in sequence. I want to nest the max() and min() functions as follows. $variable5 = min(max(($variable1 - $variable0), 0), $variable3); The PHP manual says/suggests that this type of nesting is possible. However, the code doesn't run …

I have a script in which I would like new code to appear based on the response to a question. I am using 'onChange' to trigger the event. The difficulties I am having are that: 1) The format of the form changes after the event. I would like the new …

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I have searched for and read through over 50 examples of linked lists. I can barely make heads or tails out of them. Some are in C, some are in Java, some use templates, most only discuss theory and display flowcharts but have few explained examples. I need serious help! …

if ive a 1000 songs,using shuffle whats the probability, on average, how many tracks will be played before a previous song plays again. tricky probability Q, getting a few different answers, with some variation of accuracy!! thanks

I am teaching myself C++ and wrote a program that does the queue data structure. It runs corectly. I would like some feedback on how I can improve the program to make it run faster, use fewer lines of code, or be clearer to someone else. I haven't added my …

I am teaching myself C++ and amd now trying to simple programs related to data structures. I wrote this code for a simple stack. It is not working. I am frustrated and tired so I cannot think through the issue. There are two main problems with which I need help. …

I would like to express a superscript and a subscript in the same vertical space. For example, consider a variable called X with a subscript 1 that is squared. I have searched for examples of what I want to do but cannot find anything close. [code] X₁² [/code] The above …

I am organizing my site to make it easier and faster to maintain. I keep a small version of my site on my laptop running Apache/PHP. I successfully organized and recoded things to the way I wanted. Upon uploading the file to my live site, I ran into several problems. …

Hi. This is not a frequently browsed category, but there is no place else for my question. I am organizing my site to make it easier and faster to maintain. I keep a small version of my site on my laptop running Apache/PHP. I successfully organized and recoded things to …

Hi guys, again, coming to this forum for asking some confirmation of my knowledge confusion. firstly, let's take a look on the code:- [CODE] #include <iostream> using std::cout; using std::endl; int main() { // main process const int value_1 = 1000; const int *pointer_1 = &value_1; const int **pointer_2 = …

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I am making a calculator which shoul not use cmath.h. I was just thinking that how is it possible to calculate trigonometric functions without cmath.h. Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Hello, I am a first year Comp Sci student and i am trying to finish this program. I am almost done with it but i just can't figure out one thing which is that, how do i show the initial principal amount under Principal heading in loop? the initial amount …

Is using -100px or minus however many pixels considered as bad coding practise, should it be avoided? Do employers look down upon this? Example Use: [CODE] <div style="margin-left:500px; margin-top:-85px;"> <p>Home | About | Contact</p> </div> [/CODE]

I am developing my own project for the practice. I am having a great deal of difficulty conceptualizing the classes I want. The scenario is that of 2 countries, each capable of producing 2 goods, using 2 factors of production. Specifically, Lower Mongolia and Upper Mongolia have certain amounts of …

I have made revisions to my program. I gave up on the idea of using functions that return arrays. That was far too complicated for the expected benefit. This latest version compiles and runs correctly with all of the provisions required by the exercise. What remains is feedback on the …

This is part of my Wumpus Hunt program. Suggestions were to clean up the main() part of the program by creating functions. I am working on that and ran into this difficulty (for me). The functions that relate to the rooms of the game need to return an array. I …

I was already thinking along ARKoenig's suggestion and revised my code to use arrays. It was working pretty well until I made some minor changes. Now it loops non-stop without any prompt for the player to make a play. I am sure it is a small error, but I can't …

Is it possible to have an array as a class member? It is part of my Wumpus Hunt exercise. I want to do the following: [code] class Room { blah blah; }; int main() { for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { Room adjacent[i]; blah blah; } [/code] …

Stroustrup has an exercise in which the reader writes a program for the wumpus hunt game. A first draft of my code is below. It compiles and runs partly correctly. If you choose to move to a different room the program runs as expected. If you choose to shoot at …

I have a difficulty I need help to overcome. I am developing a program that uses more than 1 class. Variables defined in one class are used in other classes. For example: [code] class X1 { private: int a; int b; public; X1() { a = 10; b = 20; …

An exercise that Stroustrup wants the reader to do is understand the output of the following program. [code] #include "../../std_lib_facilities.h" struct X { int val; void out(const string& s, int nv) { cerr << this << "->" << s << ":" << val << "(" << nv << ")\n"; } …