The board has its ebbs and flows when it comes to programming topics. One day it could be a flood of Java questions regarding an inventory system and the next it could be how to write to a file in C#. A recent question on the board has been popping up over the last couple days with regard to creating a multiplication table in C++. So lets talk a little ...
We have a lot of newbies on the forum these days. Again and again we are asked "What are some good books for language _______?" We all have our favorites and some books lean towards a certain learning style. So one programmer is going to like a particular book more than another programmer might. But besides that little glitch in perspective, there are some books that are generally accepted as ...
On this entry we cover a question that appears a lot on the boards in a variety of languages. Reading lines of a file into an array, vector or arraylist. I have several examples lined up for you to show you some of the ways you can accomplish this in C++ as well as Java. Keep in mind that these examples are very simplistic in nature and designed to be ...
So you are alone in your cubicle at work, twiddling away on your computer when suddenly your supervisor comes by and yells at you for not handing in some kind of report. You tried to do it earlier but your supervisor was too busy playing fuse ball with the VPs to listen to you. After all, miracle workers like you are suppose to work miracles, not bother the management. So ...
Now some of you may be thinking "a set" like some kind of gang terminology. While I do belong to a gang of some hard core programmers here at DIC, I can assure you that we are only talk programming terms here. So I don't want you to drive by my house or anyone to ask me to score some weed. However, if you want to know how to order ...
It was asked recently how one might go about changing the various access times (last modified, creation date etc) of an existing file through C/C++. The idea we will show you below takes advantage of a few functions in windows.h for altering file and system times. And no it can't be used on your homework to change the due date. And no it doesn't include the creation of a flux ...
