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Modularise Project and Deduplicate Code By Loading External Modules On Startup

Starting point I kind-of inherited a VBA project at work that consists of a bunch of Word document templates that provide users with the tools they need to create documents according to company ...

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asked by Chris 13 votes answered by Raystafarian 5 votes

Caffeine-Driven FizzBuzz

I have been given following problem to solve: If the integer is divisible by 3, return the string "Java". If the integer is divisible by 3 and divisible by 4, return the string "Coffee" If the ...

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Simple C# HashTable Implementation

Haven't put one of these together since college. How does this look overall? public class HashTable<T, TU> { private LinkedList<Tuple<T, TU>>[] _items; private ...

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Drawing the flag of Liberia

I am working on this assignment to draw the flag of Liberia for my essentials of computer programming class. I finished it but had extra time to kill and noticed that a couple similar blocks of ...

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Repository Pattern without an ORM

I'm trying to learn the Repository pattern, and I have some questions regarding my current understanding of it. All the examples I've been able to find of database repositories use ORMs, but for a ...

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C++: multi-function memoizator and multi-type container

I'm trying to write a multiple functions memoizator, I talked about it here. The main problem is to create a container containing different and heterogenous functions. I found a working solution, ...

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Generic extension method that will attempt to parse a string and return it's value or default(T)

So I got sick of several things about the way TryParse works. I implemented a generic ParseOrDefault function using reflection. It appears to work as expected, but I'm not fool enough to say my code ...

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Checking whether a number is a power of 10

Is there a better way to check whether a number is a power of 10? This is what I've implemented: public class PowersOfTen { public static boolean isPowerOfTen(long input) { if ...

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asked by jcm 21 votes answered by Mark Reed 36 votes

Count number of words in a text file

Is this a good approach or is there some other solution that I am not aware of? //C++ program to count number of words in text file #include<fstream> #include<iostream> ...

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asked by Deepak Singh 12 votes answered by Jerry Coffin 16 votes

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Wrapping a non-unique handle with additional information

I have a situation where I'd like to wrap up some plain C handles into a class, with a destructor and other niceties, in C++. I would like the wrapper class to have the exact same size as the handle, ...

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asked by Andrew Williamson 2 votes

Async Task with multiple requests in android

I am using this AsyncTask class to update two different tables on SQL Server. So far this code works fine, I'm interested in a better and more sufficient code structure for this class, specially in ...

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asked by Osama Aftab 3 votes

Inserting nodes into a trie data structure

I have a recursive algorithm that inserts nodes into a trie data structure but it seems to be running not well and takes over 10 mins to complete on a data set of about 1 million. All nodes contain a ...

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