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Hello, I was hoping to get some input from anyone in the Java section. My professor gave us a practice problem about two weeks ago and I have been running into an out of bounds error. The program seemed simple enough, take in two arrays of binary numbers from a …

Hello to all programmers out there. Considering the growing request for practice problems by the beginners, we ( Me, Joey, Niek, Aaron..) have decided to start a sticky which will host some common practice problems which would help the beginners in understanding the programming concepts in a better way. (Did …

Hello All, long time no see, I'm seeking for websites that provides practices of C++ and Java examples for programming students, the idea is to give me a programming question to solve in order to train myself. thanks.

I am trying to learn SQL programming in my spare time, but I'm running into some issues. I currently have Visual Basic Studio 2010 installed, as well as Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012. I've been told that I should be using MySQL to practice the coding. Should I lean towards MySQL …

My name is Leonard E. Norwood Jr. I'm just practicing a simple bubblesort program but this time using classes and pointers with operators >> and << and also an overloaded operator =. I'm merely trying to sort a list of numbers from lowest to highest. And the purpose of the …

What is the best way to practice C++ coding on Windows 7, and at the very least free? I want to get better at programming, but I don't have a compiler.

Hi every I'm new here and new to programming. : ) Here is a practice assignment I have completed but seemingly not correctly. Can anyone offer advice as to my error? It compiles correctly but using some test numbers I only ever recieve that the circle has no x intercepts …

hello, i was wondering if you could tell me what would you diffent/better on the following code. I am trying to become a better developer and i would like to learn what the best PHP pratice is. I remove the comments to make it a bit cleaner //THIS IS THE …

Background Due to a decrease in advertising profit, your favorite (and previously free) social networking site has decided to charge a monthly fee to each member. Frustrated, you set out to make your own social networking site, VisageTome. For now, you will need to make a class to store each …

Hello everyone. First, a little about me. I started off web development in .Net (C#) and found it to be not suiting my style. Then I moved on to PHP and instantly fell in love with it. I've been practicing it for the last 40-45 days and have covered up …

Practicing C++ and here is two of the practice problems I pulled from the FAQ And practice post. Just want feedback and issues with the way I wrote these. Simple Calculator [CODE] #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <sstream> #include <stdlib.h> using namespace std; int main(void) { //cout << string(50, '\n'); …

Hello everyone. Today I decided to write a little Caesar cipher script in Python. After tweaking the code and testing it, I shot up my browser and had a look at other snippets on the web. I was shocked at what I saw. All of the Python solutions I went …

I need to keep my coding skills up to snuff, but I'm having kind of a block. I don't know what to code. Anyone have any idea of some small projects that I can work on? Perhaps ones that would look good if i sent them to companies? Don't ask …

Hi! I've recently converted some C code to a bit more native C++. This included changing printf() statements to std::cout statements. However, some printf()'s are rather lengthy and annoyingly long (and human-error-prone) to write in std::cout. Example (and this one is a short one): C-style: [CODE]printf("ERROR %d: %s: %s\n", event, …

I know a lot of people have their own comforts and styles when it comes to scripting and coding, but... Some language documentations specifically state a naming convention that is considered best practice for their language, like Java specifying camelCase. However, PHP's online documentation doesn't specify a naming convention (from …

Since I am a Python beginner, I was thinking about studying,and possibly working on some real-world software written in Python. So could you guys suggest some simple open source projects that I could use to study and, if possible, get involved with in development. Thanks.

Hi, i need help or advice on how to start a code i have to write. This is the details of the program with an example: [url]http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~acl/cs1410/prog6.pdf[/url] Any help or advice on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated.

I'm going through K.N. King's introductory [i]C Programming: A Modern Approach (2e)[/i] and every time I see the code in the book, I can't help but wonder what's the better way to write your code in the following situation. Should I use the curly brackets or not, and how much …

I know: -basic cout/cin -declaring single integers/strings -currently learning 'for' loops as you can see, my knowledge is extremely limited as of now, and i wish to have a few practice problems to have a go at. May i have some suggestions?