Hello everyone! The other day I was approached by macosxnerd101, a newly minted moderator at Dream.In.Code, and asked to contribute to a new thread coming up on Java data structures. Now most of the new programmers here know of the basic data structures like binary trees, arrays, heaps or stacks. Many of these topics I knew would be covered by other contributors to the thread. So I decided to introduce ...
Yesterday a user came through the Java forum looking for help with finding the intersection of two LinkedList sets. If you were anything like I was in school, you probably had a flash back to math class and the teacher drawing Venn Diagrams up on the white board. Two circles, usually representing two sets of elements, and where they overlapped was elements shared between the sets. Maybe they even drew ...
When talking about any kind of server-side language, like PHP or ASP, you will often find the term "database" not too far behind. It is the preferred choice for storing data on the web after all. Another option is to use a text file. The problem with text files is that they are not typically secure, can be easily read, and don't offer any of the features like referential integrity ...
