There are various methods to access information in a table "lookup" structure. Indexed access, sequential access, etc but the type of access you go with always depends on the data. Many times on the board I have noticed people asking about setting up some type of scale. Most of them are usually working on a grading program of some sort. How does someone determine if the student got an A ...
As a casual reader of my blog, you may know I like to do an occasionally weird post that I stick in my "General Discussion" category just for kicks. I figure that programming doesn't always have to be a chore. It can be fun if you want it to, playing around with certain features. In this entry I play around with time zones and how you can find out a ...
Who doesn't like graph theory? Come on... it is the foundation of all living beings! Ok maybe not but it is still a bit interesting from a theoretical standpoint. Graph theory is the study of graphs and their relationships between points on that graph and their overall collection. It is often made up of vertexes (aka nodes) and the connections between them known as edges. Linked together they form a ...
Amortization... it is the process of accounting for, and usually decreasing, an amount of money over a period of time. You can amortize a mortgage or various types of loans, and you can amortize assets based on their value and what their value will be in so many periods of time. Many newbies on our boards have asked about this very project as part of the computer science courses and ...
Ever hear the term "Kicking the bucket"? If not, it is usually used here in North America to mean someone died. Well rest assured I am not going to be whipping out expressions like "I see dead programmerssss" or anything in this post. Ok, maybe I just did, but the idea behind BucketSort (aka Bin sort) is just that, creating buckets of numbers which we attack with our choice of ...
