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List of structs iterator error C++ [on hold]

i am still kind of new to C++, i have been trying to make a basic Blackjack game using a struct for the cards and a list for each players hand. After a lot of reasearch on std::list and it's functions ...
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A problem with Tic-Tac-Toe in python [on hold]

I created a Tic-Tac-Toe in python, that have to game options - Player VS player and player VS computer. The player VS player option works perfectly, but something in my player VS computer option ...
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Positioning for browser size [on hold]

I'm creating my first webpage (GitHub link) which is a copy of Google's homepage. So far, so good. Things are looking pretty decent...and then I resized my browser window and I have things flying ...
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Copying data from closed workbooks

I'm an intern in an industrial company in Brazil and it happens that I'm using excel a lot. I just started playing with VBA couple of days ago, and I'm amused of how many things it can do for me! I ...
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Find all integers between m and n whose sum of squared divisors is itself a square

Divisors of 42 are : 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42. These divisors squared are: 1, 4, 9, 36, 49, 196, 441, 1764. The sum of the squared divisors is 2500 which is 50 * 50, a square! Given two ...
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Recreating Google homepage for learning purposes

Like other posters, I'm currently working on recreating Google's Homepage for The Odin Project. I'm new to HTML and CSS but I'm eager to learn and have been looking around for an answer, testing ...
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Efficiently return a ChatColor

I am working on a plugin for a Minecraft server. In it, I have a function that returns a ChatColor depending on what permission level you are. Whenever I need ...
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Illegal Start of Expression, not sure what the cause is [on hold]

I keep getting an illegal start of expression on public int makeThrow. I have checked many other posts and most of them are due to a bracket error or defining a method within main. However, I ...
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CMS with MVC structure [on hold]

First I have a base controller that instantiate the view class, set some useful methods and call the render method of view object. A base model that just instantiate and store a db instance. UPDATE: ...
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PHP/MySQL - OOP database class

I use this database class in a CMS, just a project to learn OOP. Would like to have some review on how to improve it, what should I change, add, remove? ...
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Calculator in HTML, CSS, JS

I am new to Javascript and HTML. I have written code for a calculator, so review my code and points out pros and cons in it. ...
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Read through a log file to find “Fail” lines

Please bear with me, I'm only about a week into Python. This code is something that I wanted to do once I completed the chapters dealing with opening and reading files, and RegEx. I always feel like ...
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Javascript Breakout Game

I'm a novice programmer who is very new to Javascript, and animation/graphics, and I have this breakout game on my flask website. I tried to do as much as I could from scratch, and I'm unsure if my ...
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18 Motor, 6 Leg robot Walking code - Python / ROS - follow-up

I have re-designed my robot walking code from feedback I received on previous question and would love to hear some feedback and pointers. Main.py: ...
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Extracting original values from cumulative sum values

I was writing a function in python to extract original values given a list containing cumulative sum values. For eg - ...
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Classes representing a developer–manager relationship

I am fairly new to C++ and here is a piece of code I wrote while I was looking into the copy constructor working. The code compiles perfectly on MSVC. I am using VS2005 as IDE and using C++03. My ...
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Program for helping people practice their maths [on hold]

Please mention anything that could help me. ...
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RLE-like string compression in clojure

There have been already many similar questions to this one (e.g. this and this, just to point two), but I did not find any for clojure. The goal is to compress a string in a RLE-like way: i.e. each ...
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Student Management

You are a computer science professor at South Harmon Institute of Technology, and are in dire need of automatic grading! The good news is you have all of your student's assignments in an ...
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18 Motor, 6 Legged robot walking using Python / ROS

I have been using ROS alongside Python to enable my built robot to walk. I am aware that my code needs some improvement such as classes etc. This is my first Python / ROS program so any help and ...
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The Grid Search

Given a 2D array of digits, try to find the location of a given 2D pattern of digits. Input Format The first line contains an integer, T, which is ...
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How do I add JSON data to my table, without refreshing the page? [on hold]

It correctly saves the data to the string, but how do I show the data in my table? Why isn't this code working? Javascript code: ...
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Calculation of duration between two timestamps in different rows

In my sample data table below, all datatypes are varchar(255). ...
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Simple command-line password generator

I'm very new to Haskell, I've read most of learnyouahaskell.com and played around with some simple things, but this is probably the most 'complicated' bit of Haskell I've written so far. I have an ...
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“Of three points supplied, is one a midpoint of the other two?”

Write a method named hasMidpoint that accepts three integers as parameters and returns true if one of the integers is the midpoint between the other two ...
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Efficient dictionary printing

Here's what my task is: Dependant on the "Logged In" user, they'll have different access rights and will see different menus. I have tried using the .get() ...
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Stewardesses serving passengers

I did an exercise (open-ended - without an answer) from a JavaScript book (chapter about functions). Given array of passengers of a flight with their names and ticket types and one need to emulate ...
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Interplanetary weight calculator

I have been using this site for a couple of years for great answers and a ton of help. I wrote this program for my class project due 1/23. I am just wondering what you would recommend me changing or ...
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Collating creature descriptors spread across multiple stanzas

I have been using Python for only a few days, so I am trying to learn about some best practices. An explanation of what this code is supposed to do is at the bottom of this post. It is an exercise to ...
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Beginner - Guessing Game

In the past few days i have started to learn python 3 in my spare time and i am really enjoying it so far. I have attempted many simple programs such as a palindrome checker and reverse a string in ...
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Npm-module: socket-event

I've written a small npm module. It is my first module. I'm asking you to review several things: The code. I am rather starter, so any wise critic will be super. Any suggestions or ideas on the ...
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Extracting RAR files in a directory

I just started programming, and something is telling me that this working function looks to big for what it does. Can you give a better version of the code so I can understand how to code faster, ...
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Determine cheating in reverse “Guess My Number” game

I'm just starting to learn C++ (not my first language), and started with working on a program to simulate the classic "Guess My Number" game, and am mostly looking for feedback on optimization and/or ...
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Build SQL query criteria from form input

Very new to php. Using XAMPP, netbeans. I am using a <form> to send various input parameters as a GET to retrieve data from a very simple two table MySQL db. ...
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To-do app, as one monster function and as several smaller functions

I am learning to code by making a todo app in pure javascript. My first attempt can be seen here. It's all cosmetic, meaning it stores no information, generates no objects or arrays, though it was ...
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Generate set of random numbers and remove lowest

I'm learning some Python with my kids, and we're making a program to generate D & D characters from user input. One portion of the code is to generate stats, which are a set of six numbers where ...
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Associating degrees with notes of scales

I have a JS file that creates an object with notes from a music scale when given a key (aka tonic/ note). The code works and does what I want it to do. I need a critique on the way it's written, what ...
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Using nested if statements to select textfield for update of associated label

So I have written a very simple program using a cocoa pods library to calculate the distance between different cities. Here is what the UI looks like: So I have a textfield on top for entry of ...
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SICP exercise 2.28 - counting leaves in a tree (recursive process)

From SICP Exercise 2.28: Write a procedure fringe that takes as argument a tree (represented as a list) and returns a list whose elements are all the leaves of the tree arranged in ...
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Array class to replace all iterator needs

Following dreams, I have started learning Java for Game Programing purposes and, during code I figured out that Iterators such as Queue, Lists, Arraylists and what not are very common. I have written ...
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Solution to Project Euler problem 5 (LCM of 1 to 20)

I'm an experienced C# developer trying to teach myself F#. I spent a day or 3 reading throught the F# wikibook trying to get to know the syntax and F# fundamentals. As an exercise I'm trying to go ...
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Fighting game in Java

I want a better way to do the if statements, and if there is a better way to do it. How is it more efficient? Is there something like a ...
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Implementation of mergesort in C

I have implemented mergesort in C. Any advice on making it more compact? My merge function seems less than fully optimal. ...
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Elementary, Dr. Watson; it's a console adventure

How can I make this code shorter? The code I am using is so long. Just making one simple level is taking about 100 lines of code. ...
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Resistance is futile, Resistors have been dispatched to model your Resistance

Since it was getting boring to always do OOP Languages I decided to dabble in the functional realm of programming. For that I chose the narrowly missed community-challenge by Edward: Resistor Mania, ...
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Returning the number of records per day

I'm writing a query to get the number of sessions created each day for the past 90 days. I'm currently using a prepared statement to do this - looks something like this: ...
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SICP - exercise 2.27 - reversing elements of a list and sublists

From SICP Exercise 2.27: Modify your deep-reverse procedure of Exercise 2.18 to produce a deep-deep-reverse procedure that takes a list as argument and returns as its value the list with its ...
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Velocity verlet implementation

My code is meant to update the positions and velocities of planets. There are a few methods in this class, but updatePosition and ...
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Algorithm to categorize episode-file names efficiently

I'm trying to categorize file names of anime episodes (for now) into appropriate title based categories. The Show-titles are parsed from an XML file (I got from Anime News Network). EDIT: The passed ...
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Converting a string to an Integer in C

I'm learning C and one of the questions I've been asked is converting a string to an integer. The code I've written supports converting from a string in any base up to 16/hex to an integer. There is ...