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which websites or open forums teach app building and game building skills for free? [on hold]
I am beginner just started learning web development i wanted to know which websites would help me build my basic understanding to coding and also help reach an higher level
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What is the definition of pointer?
Conceptually a Conceptually, a "pointer" is just something that "points" to something else;Is this definition is sufficient to tell exactly what a pointer is in programing languages?
Does it need to ...
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How to get job at product-based company
I am a software engineer with 5yrs of development experience in Mainframes, working in one among reputed service-based company. Besides, I am M.E graduate in computer science, having good knowledge in ...
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Git for a solo developer
Hi I'm a developer working on a Wordpress project. I work on this alone and I want to improve the way I use Git but I don't know where to start.
Currently, I'm using git to commit all of the work ...
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Efficiently “moving” data upward through a communication stack
I have implemented an application protocol stack that moves an incoming stream of data upward through several layers, as follows:
copies a TCP segment from an OS buffer to my_buffer.
after ...
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Software licensing template that gives room for restricting usage to certain industries/uses of software/source
I'm developing some software that I would like to be "semi" open source. I would like to allow for anyone to use my software/source unless they are using the software/source for certain purposes. For ...
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Pair Programming/Collaboration in a small company
I work at a small development company as the lead developer. We have two other developers, as well as my boss who is a developer, but doesn't really do much of the actual coding anymore.
The problem ...
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Timeline of a programmer in terms of languages? [on hold]
Alan Perlis once said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you
think about programming, is not worth knowing".
I am not proud of the fact that I started programming with scripting languages ...
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What types of specification documents exist in app lifecycle?
Developers in large companies usually have multiple specification documents that they write at each phase of the software in question.
I've heard of some of them and would like someone to tell me of ...
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How do I maintain consistency in my coding and avoid being saturated / frustrated?
There are times when everything is so swift and everything I do ends up being right. Even a difficult task seems very easy while coding in this period.
But there are also times when I get a little ...
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Why is float the default in the majority of languages?
In programming languages, for represent numbers you have (mainly) two types: Int(s) and floats.
The us of Int is very easy. However floats cause a lot of unexpected surprises:
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Candidate Elimination Algorithm - upper bound becomes too general [on hold]
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I should use Candidate Elimination algorithm from Machine Leaning area to calculate correct hypothesis for following training data:
Nr violence nudity horror drugs U/Uc/PG -> ...
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Is there a correlation between the scale of the project and the strictness of the language?
Explaining the difference between strictness of languages and paradigms to a colleague of mine, I ended up asserting that:
Tolerant languages, such as dynamic and interpreted languages, are used ...
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Why is Perl not used in favor of Java, Python, PHP, C# and such? [on hold]
When we did web development in 1996 it was CGI, FCGI and Perl on the backend. Now why is Perl not that popular anymore and instead we use Java, Python, Go, PHP, C# and everything but Perl? To me it ...
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How to manage with less technical knowledge?
I've become a project manager in my company and here is what I've experienced till now:
At first, I was trying to keep in shape technically with other developers of the team (about 15 developers) and ...
