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I have a programming assignment for CSCI180. The assignment is to create a recursive function power(base, exponent) that when invoked returns base ^ exponent. Everything compiles correctly and when i run the program i enter the base and exponent like prompted. But then the program stops working and i cannot …

I have a small WxPython app using the CalendarCtrl module, which works fine. I have it set to bring up a grid of times for a particular day's appointments when I click on one of the days. But I don't see how to detect which cell of a grid I …

Hey guys, I've got a fairly simple script which I'd like to convert (if possible) into a Windows DLL so that I may use it in conjunction with some of my .net projects. Is such a feat possible, if so where do I begin? I've read that there's a book …

Hello, I have an application where (and this is probably not how its done but something I'd like to do) the user clicks a button which brings up another form with 2 text boxes. The user enters text, and then clicks ok. The user entered text is then passed to …

This is my goal: - Search the list for a number and display how many times the number occur or display 'number not present' - Modify number and change each occurrence of a #, to the new number or display 'number not present' I have 2 functions. My first function …

Is there any way that I can take a String and somehow use it as if its the name of one of my declared Objects? For example, if I have an Animal named germanShephard, is there some way I could say String gerSh = "germanShephard"; and then treat gerSh as …

Write a program that will prompt the user to type in a series of characters. Input these characters into a c-string (char array). For each character, if it is a letter, toggle the case (upper to lower case, or lower to upper case). All other characters leave as is. Print …

I was wondering if anyone could offer some suggestions on how to validate a social security number & their employee # that a user would input separately through prompts? The SS# would be in the form of xxx-xx-xxxx where the x's are 0-9. I tried using this function that I …

Hi! I'm trying to write a method that finds the index of a specified occurrence of a character in a given string using recursion. I've managed to count the number of times a character occurs in the string, but can't figure out how to find the index of a particular …

I have to create a database that implements an array that stores a persons first name and last name and zip code this is what i have so far for my individuals array public class IndividualsArray { private Individuals[] array; private int count; private int zipCode; public IndividualsArray () { …

For a lab, my instructor asked us to include an assignment operator with our class, but to hide it. Does this mean to declare it as private and just leave an empty implementation? Is this common/useful?

I have a problem with a code attempting to do a factorial of a number. For numbers 12 and below, the code works fine, but when I do 13 and above it outputs the wrong number. [icode] #include <iostream> using namespace std; int number; int number2; int main() { cout …

Hi, I was coding the following program.. [ICODE] // Program takes work hours and rate per hour and gives total // salary after tax, if work hours are over 40, its increased by 1.5x. #include <iostream> #include <conio.h> using namespace std; int main() { double hr_work, hr_rate, taxed_total, total; cout …

Please, how does 'Python, wxPython, wxWidgets, C++' all fit together? WxWidgets being written in C++ and all. What is actually being handed to Python when we use these things. Thanks a bunch!

Hi all, Iam developing one windows application in that i have to open one text file and read it from http link on website like: "http:\\website\dir\sample.txt" iam using c# as language.How to do this.

I am writing a RAT in which i have also included a keylogger as a DLL file. here is my code in the keylogger.dll : [CODE] //function.h -- the file which will be referenced by my RAT project file.///////////////////////// extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) void setHook(); //keylogger.h////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #if !defined(AFX_KEYLOGGER_H__5979CE3A_20A6_4172_BBF1_9F7C091CC182__INCLUDED_) #define AFX_KEYLOGGER_H__5979CE3A_20A6_4172_BBF1_9F7C091CC182__INCLUDED_ #if …

I've seen a lot of different possible ways to do so, but I was wondering what people thought the most efficient way was.

Hi everyone, as the heading already says i want to check whether a folder is a network share or not. So far i tried to achieve this by reading the file attributes but that did not lead to the right solution. If anyone here knows how to do this please …

I have no clue why this isn't working. The top part that reads into size, shortTime, longTime, and threshold work fine. Down below where I try to do the exact same thing and read into x, i get segmentation fault every single time. It seems to me that everything is …

I have a bunch of sort methods in a class: [CODE=cplusplus] typedef int DataType; void bubbleSort(DataType theArray[], int n); void insertionSort(DataType theArray[], int n); void mergesort(DataType theArray[], int first, int last); void quicksort(DataType theArray[], int first, int last, char * pivot_type); void selectionSort(DataType theArray[], int n); [/CODE] In my main …

Hi there. I am using a RichTextCtrl on a window with a toolbar. The toolbar has a save button on it that is disabled by default when the application starts. I need this button to become enabled when the user changes something in the RichTextCtrl, but I'm having trouble working …

Hi all, I was developing my app under Linux, using the Loki library. No I am trying to work on it using visual c++ under windows XP. I can compile without errors both my project and the loki library, which created a loki_D.lib. I include this .lib through the makefile. …

I have made two resource files,named 1)Form1.en-US.resx Name Value Button1.Text English 2)Form1.fr-FR.resx Name Value Button1.Text France My Code is as Under- [code]Imports System.Globalization Imports System.Threading Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim ci As CultureInfo Dim aL As New ArrayList() For …

As far as I know, exceptions that are not subclasses of runtime exception or error should be caught (handled). When a file exception occurs, it should be caught because its a subclass of exception class, but how can it be recovered? If file is not found,it sounds silly to recover …

Hello, I'm am really new to C++; I've only been doing it for a couple of months. However, in my class, I have no idea what I've been doing wrong...I'm posting my program and the assignment because I desperately need the insight. I'm not sure if I am in the …

Anyone out there any ideas why this compiles and runs? I'm using Visual C# 2008. [CODE=csharp]using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { public enum fluf_value { thegood, thebad, theugly, }; static fluf_value MyFunc() { return fluf_value.theugly; } static void Main(string[] args) { MyFunc(); …

I am trying to run the following screen scraping script but it's not displaying any output. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? [CODE=python] from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import urllib url = 'http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/search/cta?query=civic&minAsk=min&maxAsk=max' doc = urllib.urlopen(url).read() soup = BeautifulSoup(doc) tags = soup.findAll('p') for tag in tags: addate = tag.contents[0] …

Hi all, Im making a test text game and i got this error when i was trying to run it, after i had told it i wanted to attack: [code=python] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tom/Desktop/Python/Text game/main.py", line 109, in <module> main() File "/home/tom/Desktop/Python/Text game/main.py", line 105, in main …

Hi, I have an assignment that's giving me some problem: [quote] "1.Add methods to your Human that return collections of arms and legs. implement these methods by iterating through the collection of limbs and checking what type of limb they are. Note that you will need to use the instanceOf …

I am having a major problem with a really simple File I/O operation. I have a pretty simple datafile filled with a list of names and courses. [CODE=text] Happy Singing Dopey Dancing Sneezy Etiquette Slimey Math Grumpy Mining Slinky Karate Happy Mining Dopey Mining Doc Singing Doc Math Doc Medicine …

hi... i have a small doubt in hw to check the initial charecters in text... like if the first two letters of my text is OS or TP... so based on that i should be able to select which database to select... and one more doubt is dat suppose i …

I don't knof if that's the right place, since it's not c++ specific but a windows development doubt... (and sorry my english) My problem is kinda stupid, but i don't know whats happening, im tryng to show a popup menu when user press the righ mouse buttom, in the cursor …

I read about data forwarding and according to my notes, a nop (no-op) is required before a beq operation and after a lw operation. What about sw?

This is part of a larger project. I've simplified it here. I am implementing a word search program where word puzzles are produced and displayed. There are two main panels. One is the word search panel where there are rows of letters that spell words in different directions. The user …

Hello, I need help!!! Very new to programming. I need a program that will display a menu with the letters C,E,F,L and X for exit and allow the user to select a letter from the menu. If the user selects X,print an appropriate message and end the program. If the …

Hi, why is it giving me the warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ How may I fix this? Any help is welcome [CODE=cpp] #include <iostream> using namespace std; class Melarki { public: Melarki(): first(""){}; Melarki(char * mimi): first(mimi){}; ~Melarki(){delete first;}; char * first; }; int main() { Melarki …

Hello.. This is what my program is suppose to do: -find length of list -check for empty list -insert in back of list -delete from front of list [B]I have everything done except finding the length of list and check for empty list.[/B] I need help getting the length of …

Hello! I've started learning assembly and I have some problems with a program. I'm trying to write a program that would print some text x-times (x would be inputed by me), but I always get an infinite loop, because it seems that the counter value doesn't get updated in the …

[CODE]#!/usr/bin/python # e begoli, python connector for mysql # import MySQL module import MySQLdb # connect db = MySQLdb.connect(host = "localhost", user = "adamplo1", passwd = "U7RJM5HQ", db = "adamplo1_UniProject") # create a database cursor cursor = db.cursor() # execute SQL select statement cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM User") # get the …

Alright this is my first program in python, so be gentle. I have 2 files I need to basically combine to create a record in mysql. Features.txt has around 1300 records and property.txt has about 25,000 records. I can read in property.txt fine and get my insert statements. My problem …

When switch"ing" (....) If the user inputs 1, would you just use case 1: or case '1': thnks

I have an applet that is not initializing: [code=JAVA] import javax.swing.*; public class WordSearchApplet extends JApplet { public WordSearchApplet (int width, int height) { } public void init () { new WordSearchApplet (700, 800); } } [/code] Here is the error I get. [quote] load: WordSearchApplet can't be instantiated. java.lang.InstantiationException: …

Hello, I'm creating a subclass from an already defined class. Let's say I have a class called Student and it has a default constructor. Now I want to create a child class of Student, but when I create it, it seems that it's taking the constructor instead of the actual …

I had a similar script in solaris and it had no problem. I wrote this one in freeBSD and it gave me strange output. Can anyone please tell me why? thanks a lot [code] #!/bin/sh #This is a shell script that checks file system capacity mounted on /home directory #If …

Hey guys., i wrote a little program to calculate the foreign exchange of canadian dollar to french frank. but when i validate an input(it has to be between 1 and a 1000), i get a problem even though it makes user to reenter the number, still the very first number …

I did not care on warnings. But they put me in trouble lately. When compiler comes to the statement below it gives the warning. [code] /* void ** vpSec00 comes as an argument */ int hSec = 0; size_t nbytes; *vpSec00 = bitio_o_close(hSec0, &nbytes); [/code] it says: warning: assignment makes …

*Note: its not a fully functional hashTable for technical purposes My priority is to get it to store the strings properly. I approached this a different yet similar way to my other post and I have gotten much farther! The problem now is that my output prints duplicates each and …

This is for a frequency table that will eventually allow me to build a Huffman coding tree. I want the class FrequencyTable to simply hold a vector of the type FrequencyNode however I keep getting an error about ISO forbiding the creation of the vector. Any ideas why? Error: [CODE]FrequencyTable.h:11: …

I'm very new at C++ and would like to know how I would change a directory via user input? This will be a Win32 Project and [U]not [/U]a Win32 application. I know I can use (as standard - and without user input) the [U][B]chdir("\\dir");[/B][/U] - but how do I use …

Hi all there. I was given the task to write a simple Complex Number class as an exercise for a class I'm taking. I already met my professor and all went well (:)) but I'm left with a question which I forgot to ask her: how should I handle any …