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Top new questions this week:

The FizzBuzz challenge in Java 8 written in a short, readable and interesting way

I decided to take on the FizzBuzz challenge with as twist that I would use Java 8 concepts to make it a bit modular, yet still let it be a short, readable and understandable program. This in contrary …

java programming-challenge fizzbuzz java-8

asked by skiwi 16 votes answered by Jeroen Vannevel 7 votes

FizzBuzz implementation using the ternary operator

This is my first time writing JAVA, and I'm trying to start off on the right track. Using my C++ knowledge, I was able to understand the syntax for the ternary operator, but I'm not sure how it …

java beginner fizzbuzz

asked by Jamal 14 votes answered by Simon André Forsberg 6 votes

Tool to calculate profitability of certain items in a game

I have created a tool that lets me calculate the profitability of doing certain actions in an MMORPG game which I play, it's more edging towards a quick-and-dirty solution than towards a neat solution …

java game

asked by skiwi 14 votes answered by Ben Aaronson 6 votes

Classes for sentence-like readability

If we have a set of classes or structs such as: struct Point { float x; float y; }; struct Square { Point topLeft; float width; }; struct Circle { float radius; Point …

c++ oop c++11

asked by PeterSW 13 votes answered by Keith 7 votes

Is this FizzBuzz Swift-y?

for (var i = 1; i <= 100; ++i) { var fizzBuzz = "" if i % 3 == 0 { fizzBuzz += "Fizz" } if i % 5 == 0 { fizzBuzz += "Buzz" } if fizzBuzz == "" { …

fizzbuzz swift

asked by nhgrif 11 votes answered by syb0rg 15 votes

16-bit FizzBuzz in x86 NASM assembly

Since this problem involves small numbers (particularly with a small loop count of 100), it's possible to ease the modulo operation setup by simply working with 16-bit and 8-bit registers: [AX] …

assembly fizzbuzz

asked by Jamal 11 votes answered by Edward 6 votes

Is it still necessary to check for a front camera?

I'm trying to clean up redundant old code, so I'm asking this general question. Since all iOS 7 devices have a front camera, would it be safe to remove the code to check if the device has a front …

objective-c ios

asked by troop231 11 votes answered by 200_success 17 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Better Approach to Using the C# SerialPort Class

I've been working a lot recently with SerialPort in C# and I've come up with the following class as part of a class library I'm working on for another program. My question is, are there any more …

c# serial-port

asked by DanteTheEgregore 6 votes answered by Andyz Smith 5 votes

Why is my C# program slower than my Python program?

I made a program in Python and wanted it to be faster, so I wrote it on C# because it's compiled. To my surprise, the Python program is much faster. I guess there is something wrong with my C# code, …

c# python optimization performance

asked by bobpal 17 votes answered by Mat's Mug 17 votes

Can you answer these?

Formattable Fraction

I have written this small little program, to test how my Fraction type behaves when used with and without a custom FractionFormatter - I've implemented two custom formatters: FractionFormatter, …

c# data-structures formatting rational-numbers

asked by Mat's Mug 6 votes

Generating prime numbers using Sieve of Eratosthenes with CUDA

I'm learning CUDA and wrote a little program which generates prime numbers using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. (I know the limitations of CUDA, specially with memory sizes and limits, but this program is …

beginner c primes sieve-of-eratosthenes gpgpu

asked by Unglued 3 votes

FizzBuzz in Forth

There are quite a large number of existing implementatons of FizzBuzz but I awoke this morning in a cold sweat with the terrible revelation that Code Review had no FizzBuzz implementation in Forth! …

fizzbuzz forth

asked by Edward 10 votes