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I am interested in technology, however I do not wish to go to university and after stumbling upon the MIT Challenge, I have taken it as a proof of concept. Clearly education is changing, and I would like to take a less traditional route. But before I go too far, …

i was on the site pyschools working through the exercises, but i dont understand why it wont accept the code i input. [url]http://www.pyschools.com/quiz/view_question/s4-q2[/url] Create a function generateNumbers(start, end, step) that takes in three numbers as arguments and returns a list of numbers ranging from start to the end number (inclusive)and …

it says the following: Write a function that converts the time to 24hr format. Examples [CODE] >>> time24hr('12:34am') '0034hr' >>> time24hr('12:15pm') '1215hr' [/CODE] so i wrote the following: [CODE] def time24hr(tstr): a = tstr.split(':') am = {'12':'00','1':'01','2':'02','3':'03','4':'04','5':'05','6':'06', '7':'07','8':'08','9':'09','10':'10','11':'11'} pm = {'12':'12','1':'13','2':'14','3':'15','4':'16','5':'17','6':'18', '7':'19','8':'20','9':'21','10':'22','11':'23'} if 'am' in tstr: return am[a[0]] + a[1][:2] …

I recently installed ubuntu 13.10 onto a desktop computer - dual boot with windows 7 - , however the system would always fail to connect to my wifi network. I decided it would be better to upgrade to 14.04 before trying to fix any problems, and at first 14.04 appeared …

Hello, I recently started using vim, and decided it was about time to check out some plugins. I am still not very familiar, so my problems could be related to that fact! I started by installing vundle and using it I have installed a few top rated plugins, when I …

I have just started looking into vim, and It seems very cool indeed ! However, I am not sure whether I should use it for everything or if I should use an ide with a vim plugin. I am interested in learning libgdx/android and google glass stuff. So which would …

This is possibly a very strange question, and I'm not sure where to ask it! But is there anyone around that uses a standing desk or a treadmill desk, and can you tell us how it effects your productivity and your typing. Do you make more mistakes? Do you use …

I am considering learning some server side stuff with java, however I am getting mixed views and opinions when searching. I read a benchmark that claims java has superior performance than most alternatives, and I was considering taking a look at grizzly or spring, but I really don't know too …

I was following along to the following tutorial - [Derek Banas Java tutorial 18 - Threads pt2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Xd5avyk_0) and as I decided to go over his tutorial series by following along in notepad++ and compiling with the command line, so that I can experiment and test things I'm unsure about, I …

As a beginner java learner, I would be grateful if some people could point out a few open source projects with a high quality code base. Not necceserily aimed at a beginner, I would rather see a professional quality example, and preferabbly the project would use some common tools for …

recently started learning java, going through the official tutorial and would like to check that the below code is a valid and correct solution to the following exercise ( [exercise 1](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/QandE/creating-questions.html) class Card{ // fields ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- private static final String[] SUITS = {"Hearts", "Diamonds", "Spades", "Clubs"}; private static final String[] …

one of my goals for this year is to learn java, and I found an excuse to get started lately. So over hte last couple of hours I have been reading tutorials and the likes, and started following the advice from this post http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/java/threads/99132/starting-java-java-tutorials-resources-faq As such I am up to …

I have just started trying to learn Java, and i am currently following a tutorial series on youtube([Java tutorial by Derek Banas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGlJiUO-dZA)) it seems like a good series so far! but i have been going along with him and typing it out, then afterwards replacing my copied code with his …

I am planning a service that I would like to eventually grow into a multi-platform service, however, my original plan of creating a hybrid app may not be the best decision. Is it better to come up with one app design and recreate it on each platform, or design a …

I am working towards the goal of a social site, however, being a beginner, I have many questions I need to answer before getting anywhere! One of these is in regards to embedable scripts/ web apps/ widgets. I would like to allow the users of the site to upload web …

After waiting ages to find out my ordered copy of programming pearls wasn't coming due to a human error in stock counting, I finally got a copy. But before I get started reading through it, I thought it best to ask those who have whether I should learn c first? …

Yesterday while browsing the web, I stumbled upon a blog where the author had written a post regarding what a computer scientist should know, in that list he had given links for further reading. One of these links was to a website [nand2tetris](http://nand2tetris.org/) where the goal is supposedly to build …

At the moment I am trying to decide which book to buy, there are many that I think would be very interesting, but some are most likely beyond me. The books in my list, along with my thoughts on them are: Concrete Mathematics (I believe this is probably too advanced …

If you were to build a fairly complicated website, and you wanted to add features like instant messaging (one to one and multi-chat like a chat room, and possibly if the site becomes profitable enough, voice/video chatting) and you wanted to be able to store these chat sessions, would it …

I am in the planning stage of a project that involves a website, desktop and mobile apps. To save time and get on as many platforms as possible, I would like to develop the apps as hybrids, with as little native coding as possible - preferably none at all. So …

I'm not sure where to ask this question, as I am not sure what the project consists of. Basicaly I'm intersted in making my own email client using web technologies, and I'm unsure as to what this entails, what technologies I would require, and where I would go about seeking …

I'm new to networking and right now I was messing around in packet tracer, but I'm having trouble with the scenario I created. I will upload a couple of screenshots i've taken of my situation and I will proceed to explain my problem and what im trying to achieve. I …

Hello all, I have important files on my flash drive, and now i have discovered it is broken. I dont know what has caused it, and on none of the machines i've tested, did it show up at all. I'm guessing this means that the usb part of the device …

I have been trying to get my database insert and delete to work for a long time now, and I still cant get it working. I now have just 2 hours left before I absolutely have to have it finished and I can only insert numeric values. I suspect im …

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask , but is this erd valid? Or is it unacceptable? Thank you for any help.

I have no idea why the program isnt working, its practically the same code I used in the last project so why wont the database update? The code for the program is as follows: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; …

i seem to get stuck a lot but... I want to have a method displayData() that when called will change richtTextBox.Text to a string value I have. But I don't know how to access the richt text box from within my method. I tried changing it to public using its …

whats wrong with this code? It keeps giving me an "unreachable code detected " exception public static int search(string Registration) { // this method will search for registration, if found it will return the index value , else it will return max value + 1 for (int x = 0; …

Hello, I'm trying to program a basic program at the moment and have run into some difficulties. I have a method as follows: public static void loadDB() { // load data into datasets - this will be called on form2 the login screen loadTblStaff(); loadTblCars(); } the method is called …

I have been struggling with this since yesterday and I really need to get it finished. I have no clue why its not working. THe porblem im facing at the moment is as follows: I have a method loadDB(); That is looks like this: public static void loadDB() { // …