Iteration uses a looping control structure (while, do while, for) to repeat a section of code until a condition is met.
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Is a Recursive-Iterative Method Better than a Purely Iterative Method to find out if a number is prime?
I made this program in C that tests if a number is prime. I'm as yet unfamiliar with Algorithm complexity and all that Big O stuff, so I'm unsure if my approach, which is a combination of iteration ...
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Eliminating nested each
I have an unusual data structure that I need to search - the structure is the result of parsing a JSON file returned from an HTTP request.
The top-level object is an Array, but from top to bottom I ...
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Implementing an algorithm that walks the DOM without recursion
Here's a simple algorithm that walks the DOM given a node:
function walkDOM(n) {
do {
console.log(n);
if (n.hasChildNodes()) {
walkDOM(n.firstChild)
}
} ...
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Python line condenser function
This is a function I just wrote that tries to condense a set of strings into grouped lines. It actually works, but looks ugly. Is there a better way to achieve the same thing?
Take 4 filtering empty ...
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How to flatten the nested for loops?
The problem I am facing is:
I need to interate through a bunch of lists, and there are separated conditions which needs to be satisfied by the list. conditons are not independent.
I care about the ...
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More efficient way to retrieve first occurrence of every unique value from a csv column?
A large .csv file I was given has a large table of flight data. A function I wrote to help parse it iterates over the column of Flight ID's, and then returns a dictionary containing the index and ...
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Iterating X times (where X > Y) over Y element dictionary - is there a nicer way of doing this?
I need to write a procedure, that will take a dictionary consisting of server names and their available slots and a number of slots required, and redispatch it over the servers, so that every server ...
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Most efficient way to iterate through arrays/can I use .times method in place of while method?
I created a quick program to test the precision of randomness generated by the .rand method. The primary question is whether I can use the .times method in place of the while code blocks to increase ...
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How to add faster object to an array
I have a list with contentlets and want all languages from every contentlet (I get these with the method languageAPI.getAllValuesByKey(key , contentList). I get a Hashmap and iterate over it. There ...
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jQuery iterate or two-step?
I have an array of values of the form:
configs = ["26W", "27W", "28W"...]
They correspond to some of the a elements in a list:
<ul id="value-list"><li><a ...
