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Flow Chart - While Loops process
I'm having difficulties understanding whether or not this is the right process to use for a flow chart which illustrates the processes involved in an algorithm.
For this, assume the following:
A 1D ...
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Best Traversing Strategy / Logic Help Needed
Background: Here is the scenario, imagine I have a little Robot. I give this robot a Map, and I want him to traverse the map, after doing so, I want the Robot to tell me the shortest possible path on ...
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Is the separation of program logic and presentation layer going too far?
In a Drupal programming guide, I noticed this sentence:
The theme hook receives the total number of votes and the number of votes for just that item, but the template wants to display a ...
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Should I use AND or should I use OR [closed]
An order can be in the "status" of Completed, Corrected or some other status.
I saw some code that is checking it like this, the purpose is to disable some stuff when the status is in Completed or ...
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Is saying “if ( $a != null && $a == 5)” the same as “if ($a == 5)”
First off, sorry if this is answered somewhere else. I did a brief search, but wasn't sure how to ask in search terms.
I'm looking at some code and came across lot's of statements like this:
if ( ...
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Non-mathematical Project Euler (or similar)? [closed]
I checked the post (Where can I find programming puzzles and challenges?) where there's a lot of programming challenges and such, but after checking several of them, they all seem to be about ...
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How to improve my loop logic in programming?
I know how to do simple loops but I don't know what's going on when many loops are working together.
For example:
for (i=0; i <= 9; i++){
document.write(linebreak);
for (m=0; m <= 9; ...
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Why aren't postfix and primary expressions symmetrical?
Every primary expression is a postfix expression but a postfix expression is not primary expression.
But in mathematics, equality seems to be symmetrical. That is:
If A is B, then B is A
Why ...
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ternary or something similar for choosing function?
I posted this question on stackoverflow and it got a poor reception. In reality, the problems I'm facing are minor and any workaround can be considered impractical. However, I believe it might be of ...
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How do you decide between putting the code in the database or putting the code in the application? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should the programming language or should the database handle more work
For the sake of argument:
Let's assume the application we are building is an amortization ...
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Arguments for or against using Try/Catch as logical operators
I just discovered some lovely code in our companies app that uses Try-Catch blocks as logical operators.
Meaning, "do some code, if that throws this error, do this code, but if that throws this error ...
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When is it appropriate to use a bitwise operator in a conditional expression?
First, some background:
I am an IT teacher-in-training and I'm trying to introduce the boolean operators of java to my 10th grade class. My teacher-mentor looked over a worksheet I prepared and ...
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What do you do to improve your logical programming skills?
Do you think that only the programming pratice will help you to improve your logical programming skill or do you train your brain with puzzle games, trying imagine how universe works, playing ...
