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Top new questions this week:

Counting number of 1's and 0's from integer with bitwise operation

Is there a better way of doing this? // Definition: Count number of 1's and 0's from integer with bitwise operation // // 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 // unsigned int 32 bit #include<stdio.h> int …

c bitwise integer

asked by user2109547 11 votes answered by Filipe Gonçalves 18 votes

Weekend Challenge - Belle's Christmas

My entry for Weekend Challenge #5. In scope : Old Skool green on black text adventure Keyboard handling A story with 2 mini-quests 2 endings Virtues ( Hi Ultima ) save the day Out of scope : …

javascript weekend-challenge

asked by tomdemuyt 6 votes

Dynamic Strings in C

I wrote this code for dynamic strings and would like to know what mistakes I've made. It's just a struct that gets filled on the first call to ds_allocate and freed on the first call to ds_free. It …

c strings

asked by 2013Asker 6 votes answered by William Morris 4 votes

Can this FindString function be optimized further, in terms of speed?

int FindStr(char* str, int strsize, char* fstr, int from) { for(int i=from, j=0; i<strsize; i++) { if(str[i]==fstr[j]) j++; else {i-=j; j=0;} …

c++ optimization strings search

asked by Hex4869 6 votes answered by William Morris 4 votes

HTTP Stream A stream that opens an HTTP GET and then acts like a normal C++ istream

Needed a quick stream to get json objects. #ifndef THORSANVIL_STREAM_THOR_STREAM_H #define THORSANVIL_STREAM_THOR_STREAM_H #include <istream> #include <mutex> #include …

c++ socket stream curl http

asked by Loki Astari 5 votes

Updating a file through C++ streams

The following code is my answer to a Stack Overflow question: #include <string> #include <vector> #include <fstream> #include <cstdio> #include <assert.h> struct …

c++ file stream

asked by Liviu 5 votes answered by jliv902 2 votes

Refactoring chart generator in Linq

I'm kinda curious how I'd refactor this in the best way. I've only used Linq for simple queries. What it does: Depending on the type that is submitted, we're grouping events or payments by …

c# refactoring linq

asked by NicoJuicy 5 votes answered by retailcoder 7 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Simple calculator in Java

I've been learning Java for about 3 weeks now, and I was hoping someone could check over my code for me, and let me know how to improve. I am aware that the maths class could be removed (I could've …

java beginner

asked by Jim 6 votes answered by tintinmj 5 votes

Comma delimited string from list of items

Is there a simple way to create a comma delimited string from a list of items without adding an extra ", " to the end of the string? I frequently need to take an ASP.NET CheckBoxList and format the …

c# asp.net

asked by Josh Earl 27 votes answered by pdr 35 votes

Can you answer these?

Project Euler #82 - path sum: three ways

Here's my solution to Problem #82 on projecteuler.net: def main(): matrix = [ [131, 673, 234, 103, 18], [201, 96, 342, 965, 150], [630, 803, 746, 422, 111], …

python project-euler matrix dynamic-programming

asked by eugene y 1 vote

Quickly fixing unmaintainable SCSS code in Rails

I've been working on a website and Rails and am fairly proud of my HTML semantics. However, my CSS code has become enormous in size, which is largely unnecessary for such a small website. How could I …

optimization ruby-on-rails sass

asked by Dillmo 1 vote

Bresenham-like line algorithm

I implemented an algorithm that gives me a list of points that should be drawn in order the get a line between two points. Please note: it works only in a coordinate system whose origin (0,0) is in …

algorithm beginner haskell graphics

asked by Paul 2 votes