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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 6 votes

Word Inverter in C

I've just made this program and I want to know how to improve it. It just receives a word and prints it backwards. Sequences of numbers are also accepted, but not white spaces (that's why I used ...

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asked by Lúcio Cardoso 12 votes answered by David Foerster 21 votes

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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asked by Scott 9 votes answered by Eric Lippert 11 votes

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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asked by Smarticles101 7 votes answered by StardustGogeta 8 votes

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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asked by jpt 7 votes answered by lilobase 2 votes

Button-clicking UI for a game

I've been working on this game for a couple weeks now as a purely personal project to help myself learn Java. I'd like to know if I'm on the right track with my project. Items I'd like specific ...

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asked by Mikey Harris 6 votes

Comparing vehicle crash data the previous year

I have created an automated macro which takes vehicle crash data from a .csv file and automatically creates a pivot table and charts and compares it to the previous year. The code is approximately ...

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asked by Cyclops 6 votes answered by Raystafarian 4 votes

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Getting/setting default values from my App.config

Imagine that I need a color palette form my Winforms application to have a consistent look. What I did was create a static helper class, and helper methods that I can call from anywhere in my code ...

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asked by Sergio Tapia 50 votes answered by akmad 34 votes

Very basic calculator using methods

I have made a basic calculator using methods. This is my first attempt at using methods and would like to see if I can improve on this as there is a lot of repeated code. import java.util.Scanner; ...

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asked by Niall Szalkai 12 votes answered by asteri 12 votes

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Block Allocator

I wrote below block allocator for exercise and would love to get your suggestions. Main features I wanted to have : Detecting buffer overflows with canary terminator. Being able to allocate ...

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asked by trxsi 6 votes

Session expiration handler using PHP and jQuery

What are some good improvements on this script to detect when a session is no longer valid? Important definitions: session.gc_maxlifetime - (default 1440 seconds) defines how long an unused PHP ...

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asked by Richard_Grant 2 votes

Unit Testing Against Exceptions

I am writing a Swift library. I'm writing unit tests for that library. I am afraid that some of the code that I am testing will possibly throw exceptions. In Swift, we can handle errors, but we can ...

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asked by nhgrif 3 votes