>>22605
if you have a solid grasp on C++ then you pretty much already know C. Looking at a quick beginners tutorial and farting around in the terminal will teach you all the differences youll need to know.

>>22609
Awesome, thanks.

>>22605

If you're a half-way decent C++ programmer, you will find C's lack of certain features very frustrating. The things I miss most when I dabble in C (as a C++ programmer) are templates, RAII, and as a consequence of both, the C++ standard library. If you can live without those, you should be good.

>>22609

Not quite true. You will know C's SYNTAX, but there's more to languages than syntax. There's also that language's standard libraries and common idioms. Granted that C has fewer essential idioms than C++ does (try going around telling people that you "know" C++ without having a clue as to what RAII is or what a std::vector is), all the same, knowing C++ doesn't automatically mean that you know C, and vice versa.

>>22615
youre right, i was kind of thinking in the context of someone trying to learn the language. Thats why i said to read a tutorial and fart around in the terminal.

>>22616

Except that a "quick beginners tutorial" WON'T teach you everything you need to know about C++.

I loathe wine. never had a problem with virtual box

>>22623
Even with playing newer windows games like Mass Effect 3? I always seem to get directX-related errors

A popular choice is to have Windows as your default OS and emulate Linux, but it really depends on how much you use Linux.

It is no emulation, its just an implemantation of the winapi , and since reverse engineering isnt that easy, it doesn`t work so well

Because Microsoft tends not to fix quirks of their APIs because other software vendors would throw up a shitstorm if they do that (otherwise they get people screaming "software X is incompatible with the new windows"), resulting in the API having a lot of quirks that not everybody knows and therefore can't emulate.

>>22401
you think facebook would be around if mark was like oh well they already got a social media site...fuck no any website can overtake any other website at any point in time.

>>22420
But that's just not what I want to do at all. If I was looking for a recommendation for a good search engine, would you tell me to make my own?

>>22421
i certainly would not tell you to use google
use something like duckduckgo
also it may be starter to work on something that will possibly help you bank instead of doing something you like.
just my 0.02

>>22422

>also it may be starter to work on something that will possibly help you bank instead of doing something you like.

If I'm reading that correctly, that is what I'm trying to do, and trying to get ideas for.

bump

What the fuck

I found a table containing birthdays encoded both as an integer and text digits in a national identity number. Based on this, the integer dates are the number of days since December 28, 1800.

/thread

>>22627
What the fuck kind of epoch is 12/28/1800? Why.

Is there really no one you could ask?
If not, you might as well just make up the dates cause these numbers could mean anything.

>>22629
No, there isn't, unless you think my competitor would respond to me asking nicely. They might want to know how I got access to their data which was password-protected, and probably won't like that I used a hex editor on one of their exe's to get their connection string. They might decide to pay attention to my new client (their ex-client once their subscription expires) and I don't want that. Anyway, they do the same to me and our other competitors, it's the nature of the market I'm in.

However, there's no need to make anything up, see >>22627.

>>22628
It seemed arbitrary to me too, so I googled it. Seems it's a Clarion legacy, though I don't know why they chose that date. The data I'm converting isn't Clarion either, but perhaps Clarion was used somewhere in the product's history and they stuck with the convention.

Kernighan & Ritchie

>>22618
The C programming language by keringhan and ritchie

its a C bible

I just scored "C Primer Plus" and "C: Step by Step" by Stephen Prata and Mitchell Waite. Started off with "C Primer Plus" a couple of nights ago and am progressing nicely. It's well written, a little bit of humor, and was designed to be used as a complete course in C. It's pretty old, but all the new stuff I looked at is filled w/ ridiculous cartoons and non-sense. I'd recommend both of these books to you.

One final thing is that is written assuming you have a brain, you don't have to have tons of programming experience.

http://www.amazon.com/C-Primer-Plus-5th-Edition/dp/0672326965

>>22607
CodeAcademy does not teach javascript.
It does teach the basics of the basics of programming using javascript, and does this extremely slowly. The site looks nice though and the UI is great.
If op is interested in books I'd assume "Javascript - the good parts" is a good source of knowledge

>>22608

Javascript The Good Parts is my recommendation as well.

OP there are plenty of great free online tutorials for JavaScript, just google "best JavaScript tutorials" or something like that. Here are a few to get you started (and a few of these I've used recently since I'm learning it myself):

http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/javascript_tutorial_-_lesson_1/
http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/#javascript (watch these)
http://eloquentjavascript.net/

Once you get the fundamentals down, I'd look into JQuery. It's very well documented and easy to pick up on once you know the basics. For both JS and JQuery, just grab some tutorials like these and follow along, you'll learn them in no time.

>>22612
Forgot to mention that w3schools should be avoided whenever possible. It's an okay reference for quickly looking up tags, functions, etc. but that's about it.

More on this here: http://w3fools.com/

nb

>>22612
>>22613
>>22611

Thank you!

>>22607
>>22608
I already have some experience programming with Java, and I've fiddled with C++ and Python. I just wanted to play around a bit with some JavaScript.

Thanks for the pointers!
Pic unrelated

>>22520
Ok, Good job in even getting this far. it looks like you know what you're doing. You have all the necessary stuff to make this run. The next thing you need to do is install IIS. I think it's in the "programs" section in the control panel. From there you can go to "turn windows features on or off" then turn on IIS. next, youj'll want to configure IIS and install the asp.net mvc3 runtime. then deploy the application to the inetpub directory. Then all you have to do is get your connection string right in the config files and everything should work.

>>22560
>>22553
So well, asax files are forbidden via ISS on XP; I will try 7, just didn't want to reinstall all my server based on XP already (you know, it managed the LAN so it was better to stay on XP as long as it did the work). It's actually project for my little company so licences are important... it's all about time now but I will probably switch to Java ASAP (I'm Linux user generally so it was pain in the ass to have Windows installed just for Visual Studio anyway (student's license)). It's questionnaire system to do a little resarch among my clients... and automatically do some math with them, organise answers also. nothing big but the biggest thing I've ever done. :)

>>22562
Win 7 ? no try windows server2008.
I want to know what you are making.

>>22564
I have no license for Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 Ultimate is already bought so... I'm not seeking for perfect solution which would be using Java w/ Linux & Apache anyway. ;-) AFAIK Windows Server 2008 R2 is just like Windows 7 but with software for networking (which I would not use anyway) and free of desktop shit... am I wrong?

Also, I've already told what I made: questionnaire system. It auto-generate and send links to my clients from database and generates them then the set of questions depending of the clients' nature (e.g. the kind of pucharse they've made) and saves the answers into the database; now I'm working on generating some statistics from the answers. :)

>>22585

>am I wrong?

Yup but it doesn't matter if you aren't going to use it.

>>22587

OP here, close.

X = X>>N|(8*sizeof(X)-N))

>>22588

Oops.

X>>N|(X << (8*sizeof(x) -N))

>>22589
If we still assume 8 bit values then the sizeof is not required, of course it is a nice thing to use to make the code more portable. The extra parentheses aren't required either, bit shifting has higher precedence than bitwise or.

char is always 1 byte

>>22597

This. BUT... a byte is not always 8 bits.

I don't know shit about javascript but it look like a sorted map to me.
It's not a big deal if you know how to sort something, seriously.
Sort the key by values, use the 5 first key.

Also unrelated : I don't get the picture

>>22528
no a pop wouldnt work because after one change the smallest number may not be the one at the position of the smallest number. I would keep them sorted and then use insertion sort as an element needs to be exchanged

>>22528
Google javascript array sorting.

Also, this looks like homework.

OP here,

At my uni there are 2 streams that you can take for first and second year programming classes. First off everyone does a course in python, then you choose to do either the java based course or the linux/c++ course. same goes for second year data structures/programming. Currently I am in the second year java course. The java stream as I see it is there to set you up for the second year course "software engineering" where you and a 8 others work on an app for the whole semester. In the other stream of software engineering they do something more database related, last semester had to make online voting systems for bc provincial elections.
SFU has a majorly decent cs department and y'all should check it out for grad school or otherwise! Vancouver is a great city and cron is $25-30/8th!
For the record computing is my minor as I am a math major(3rd year).

>>22576
sorry if that was garbled, I am high as shit

Where I go to school, you now learn Racket (a Lisp dialect), then Java and C, then more C and Java, plus C++, and then depending on what you do, more C, C++, Java, or a functional language. Haskell, I think. When I was in first-year, the intro. to programming language was Java, but they switched it to Racket for some reason. I think they wanted to make the course harder so it would weed out people...

>>22578

This is at UBC, BTW. Vancouver IS nice. A bit expensive, though. $1200 per month single-bedroom apartments are pretty common. Almost low-end, actually.

>>22579
also forgot to mention there are a lot of asians. you are looking at about 10-20% non asians in math/cs/eng classes

1. Buy webhosting
   
2. Install Wordpress
   
3. Get shut down anyway

I think wordpress and blogspot are what he used already. Hes trying for something login based now maybe something like a forum if that helps?

>>22569

>Hes trying for something login based now maybe something like a forum if that helps?

Just use invisionfree with a password.

>>22570 Thanks for the input, I'll let him know about it.