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Got inspired to make computer to make moves in English Solitaire, I learned in childhood days to solve by myself consistently, no solving or game play interface at the moment (easy to add though). I added printing of the ready solution from the wikipedia, also maybe of your interest are …

Here are two examples of opening read streams to files on an FTP server. One example uses the FtpWebRequest method. One example uses the WebClient method. Here is a method of testing those functions: [CODE] using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.IO; using System.Net; namespace UseFtpStreamExample { using FtpReadStreams; class Program …

This will allow you to login a website with python. After logging in, you now have access to all the pages for "members only" accessed with python. Could be handy for a myspace update program, webcrawlers, facebook(not recommended, facebook doesn't like scripts), and other things. Some knowledge of HTML is …

This code is based on code from series of programs [URL="http://www.ferg.org/thinking_in_tkinter/"]'Thinking in tkinter'[/URL] This code is not perfect, especially it does not recognize key release when mouse moves out of button area during push. Leave event could also be captured for that to stop the event in that case.

Here is a technique I use for sending an email using GMail. Notice: You might need to change your email settings under [B]Forwarding and POP/IMAP[/B] inside your GMail settings (to Enable POP). Here is a test program for using the class library (shown in the snippet box): [CODE] using System; …

There are many places on internet for great help regarding many things. Proper implementation of really fast routines for sorting data however is not common. I am not claiming these routines to be the fastest around, but their ease of implementation and use may make them welcome. As a thank …

Turn you Monitor off from your application.

Python does not have a type like struct in C or record in Pascal, but it can be easily implemented with a class. This little code snippet shows you how to do it.

I couldn't find a meaningful code sample for the wxPython slider (wx.Slider), so I concocted this one and added a few explanations. It explores two different sliders, one is horizontal, the other vertical. The slider events are then fed to a function that retrieves the position values and displays them …

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/** * @(#)dayau_0.java * * dayau_0 application * * @author * @version 1.00 2009/9/28 */ public class dayau_0 { public static void main(String[] args) { int num = 30; String AnsHex = ""; AnsHex = DectoHexDec(num); System.out.println(AnsHex); } public static int DectoHexDec(int x) { String result = ""; int remainder …

This snippet defines a function walk() which generically performs a depth-first traversal of a tree, using preorder, inorder or postorder rules. Here, genericity means here that there are no hypotheses on what the tree nodes are or the implementation of the tree. Walk() only needs an arbitrary object used as …

I post here the code for histogram using the turtle graphics module, which I posted long time ago in discussion thread. For more special graphs there exist other fancier options, but this tkinter based routine can function in most standard installations of Python. Example data.txt, like mentioned in module docstring: …

Hand evaluator for Texas Hold'em. If a "hand" has five or more cards, hand.rank will find the best five card hand the hand can form. Two hands can be compared using the comparison operators. The final hand can be gotten from the "hand" with hand.rank.hand. The value used for comparisons …

Hi people. well after I started learning C++ I thought why not try out my skills in some programming so I made my first programme. It is a very basic game commonly known as "HANGMAN" to many. It still might have some errors but it works. Hope you can modify …

Hey All, Here is a really simple piece of code that works as a magic 8-ball program where the user types in a yes/no question and a random response is returned. This could be a good read for new C++ programmers (like me), as it covers a lot of basics: …

This snippet defines a simple decorator to post-process a function's return value through a sequence of filters. As a first application, the decorator can transform a generator function into a function returning a sequence type (list, tuple, dict).

Converting a decimal integer (denary, base 10) to a binary string (base 2) is amazingly simple. An exception is raised for negative numbers and zero is a special case. To test the result, the binary string is converted back to the decimal value, easily done with the int(bStr, 2) function.

This code below add two positive numbers in any base from binary to base 36 with any length allowed by memory. The snippet comes with examples. There might be some bugs, because I haven't tested extensively, so forgive me if you find bugs. Hope people find it useful somehow. Thanks …

This is my code for anagrams not utilizing the ready prepared file of anagram synonyms to celebrate 11.11.11 11:11:11. If you start program it warns you about missing subdirectory dict and creates it. You may put any word files, one word per line, to file <dictionary name>.txt. Program lists available …

Is it Mother Date and Father Time? Any way, getting all the different date and time displays working can be imperturbably perplexing at times. You take a look at it in this Windows Console Application.

This is similar to earlier posts in DaniWeb by vegaseat, but it demonstrates getkey with withdrawn tkinter, restart inside object by re-calling it's __init__ method.

This snippet defines a decorator to automate attributes setting in class instances at creation time. It can be seen as a gadget feature but it can also be handy especially for fast class prototyping.

Any sequence of python strings can be disguised to look like a file opened for reading, which can then be passed on the fly to functions expecting such an input file. This code snippet defines the necessary adapter class. The obtained file-like objects store only one string of the sequence …

CSV is more than just comma delimited fields. There are quoting and white space rules too. This is a short function as an example of a complete way to read CSV records line by line.

This is a series of 3 code snippets which together form a completly working "calculator". I used a console application in VS C# 2008, but 2005 should cause no problems. To start with : here you have the code for a scanner class. A scanner reads the inputline and tries …

Here is class that can be fed directly from split stream like one number per line file (or [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/321725"]generator producing 'words'[/URL] from multiple numbers per line).

There isn't a whole lot here about security related stuff, so I figured I would post some work in progress. It is pretty well commented so following it should be pretty simple. The full story and reasons for doing what I did, and not another way can be found on …

This snippet composes functions of the form [icode]func(infile, outfile)[/icode] which read an input file and transform its content to write an output file. A function [icode]compose((f, g, h,...))[/icode] is defined which returns a new such file transformation function which successively applies f, g, h, using in-memory temporary files.

This is code to plot a "random walk" in polar coordinates.See also: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/csharp/code/379275[/url] Just posted the code of my main form, more details can be found in the zip file. I also included a sample output. I perhaps intend to use this in some sort of game, were a biologist …

If a word or sentence reads the same way forward and backward, then it is a palindrome. A small admonition is in place, whitespaces and punctuation marks can be ignored. Also, all the letters should be in one case, lower or upper, your choice. Ideal for Python to show off …

This is not about a DataGridView or something else, it is just about drawing a simple grid in a form window. Googled a bit but found not much of my liking. A Grid as a BitMap in a PictureBox? Come on! Must have been some of those GUI guys I …

A console application to multiply two matrix of float numbers and print result on console. Some memory checks are done as it is allocating memory dynamicaly. May give error and exit when short of memory.

Here unsystematic play with linked list structure Object Oriented style. If you have performance critical code, please do not use this but use the superb faster than list [URL="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/blist/"]blist module[/URL] (including sorted versions of main data structures). As OO newbie (though with some 30 years of other programming), I wanted …

From a thread on another forum, I wondered how difficult it would be to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game that could not be beaten. Since it is easiest if the computer goes first and chooses the center square, this code implements that portion. The logic is fairly simple; occupy the center …

A little console application in C# to show you the IP address of your computer or the IP address of any website you like.

Here is capital letter style caesar crypted message. We can simply try all possible shifts for first few words (ignoring punctuations, which is left as is). If both first words succeed we assume we cracked it. You could also use Vigenère encryption, but keeping non-letters is less simple, our Vigenère …

Sometimes, you just want to run a system command from python and capture its output. Currently, the standard way to do this is to call the subprocess.Popen with convenient arguments and use the communicate method. After writing such code a few times, I wrote this little Command class to ease …

Early versions of Python used a hybrid of samplesort (a variant of quicksort with large sample size) and binary insertion sort as the built-in sorting algorithm. This proved to be somewhat unstable, and was replaced in version 2.3 with an adaptive mergesort algorithm. I am comparing several rudimentary sorting routines, …

The VS designer is a wonderful tool to use and saves you lots of time. One drawback though. If you have a lot of the same controls and you want to change some properties of it at runtime, you got some coding to do. Say you want to change the …

The function Delay() allows access to other events during the delay. For instance a certain key could be used to interrupt a lenghty delay. The Win32 API function Sleep() ignores events, maybe it should be called DeepSleep().

The need for efficient storing of IP numbers came up in discussion thread. With help of this conversion to/from the 32 bit numbers that IP numbers (the old ones) represent I could push the time of finding unique IP numbers from 10 million random numbers down to under two minutes …

Note This app will tell the current Time, requires .net 3.0

Learned about hook functions [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/383164/1650339#post1650339"]for a thread[/URL] having problem with bad user input from the documentation. This is result which skips bad inputs.

Simple resources loader tool which help to find some file in classpath and load it's content with respect to sanitizing policies.

Inspired by password entry discussions, I did this simple entry. You must of course find safe way to store the passwords, for example hashlib ([url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4820043/basics-of-python-encryption-w-hashlib-sha1[/url]) or [URL="https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/"]PyCrypto[/URL] and replace the simplistic example match for real life usage. The print at line 23 is just to check the attempts and to …

Source code implemented by [B]Niyas C S2C PPMHSS Kottukkara Kondotty Malappuram Kerala St India[/B]

I found an old thread that had never been answered here - [url]http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/threads/330981[/url] Basically, the guy was asking how to retrieve database names and/or table names from a MySql database with vb.net. Here's my answer to that. Yes, I still use vb6 because vb.net is not much better and I …

You can access the sound chip to play midi voices using winmm.lib, or in case of Dev C++ the libwinmm.a library. There are 128 midi voices to pick from, anything from the Acoustic Grand Piano = 0 to the Gunshot = 127.

I did some transformation of overcomplicated Rosetta code version