A mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks.
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Java CLI Program Commands
As I was creating a CLI program, I realized having a ton of switch/if-then statements was a messy way to process user input. So, I set up a way to dynamically create commands as I added modules (...
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Calculate fractions of positive, negative and zeros
Find the fractions for, all positive numbers, all negative numbers and zeros in a given set of integer array.
I wrote the below program. If you see any improvements required, please feel free to ...
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Console argument parsing and output printing in c#
I have a console application, which uses Ndesk.Options to parse console arguments, request weather data and print them. I am looking primarily for code style suggestions.
This is the code, which ...
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Console command parser for my custom Libgdx console (gamedev)
For a game I'm writing using LibGDX framework and Kotlin language, I've decided to make a dev console. This is a WIP line parser. Since there's already a decent amount of code written I've decided to ...
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Display a List<T> in Console
I was searching for a way to display a List<T> with n elements in a user friendly and easy to handle way within the console application. So I wrote this ...
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Loading… animating dots in C
I've recently wanted to make a "Loading..." display in C where the dots print one at a time in order and then reset:
Suprisingly, there isn't much on the internet for doing this well, so I figured ...
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Autocompleting console input
Yesterday I stumbled upon a Stack Overflow question that asked if it was possible to implement Tab-triggered auto-completion in a console application.
I thought that was an interesting idea, so I ...
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BMI calculator in Python
This is my first attempt at writing a programme: a BMI calculator written in Python. Please give me feedback on the programme overall, as well as how easy the code is to interpret and adapt.
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Object-oriented console adventure
I have been messing around with practicing some c++ making a little console game, and I would like to receive some advice and tips on how to improve my code.
Some of the code is not done, meaning ...
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Emails, emails everywhere
My job entails me to send a lot of emails. I'm really bad at typing so I decided to create a program to do it for me.
I've created an email generation tool (originally posted here.) I've changed ...
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Coloured bash prompt including git status and previous exit code
I wanted to create a short, informational and colourful prompt.
My prompt includes:
Exit status of last command (if not 0)
Distinctive changes when root
rsync-...
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Get only intended input from user through the console
I finally worked out all of the bugs in this bit of code. I'm pretty proud of it and I wanted to give it to all of you so that you could have it if you wanted it for any console programs that you make....
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Minesweeper C++
This is my improvement of a minesweeper game I took from the internet, which I am quite proud of. Nevertheless I am willing to hear your opinions, suggestions, and comments.
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Using argparse module within cmd interface
I've created an application that uses a cmd interface. It has multiple levels, and the number of available commands and their complexity is growing. As such, I need to generalise argument parsing - of ...
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How to flatten multiple nested node readline questions?
Say I'm creating a simple CLI. I want to use native node readline module to take in some input from user at prompt. I thought of this :
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Console Worker Follow-Up
A few hours ago I posted a similar question but this is a follow-up, I have revised the code and added and removed certain lines of code and hopefully improved it a bit, I just brought it here for a ...
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ConsoleWorker update console timer with how long application has been open
earlier I coded a quick console worker that runs a timer every 1 second and updates the consoles timer with how long the app has been open, how can I improve this?
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Console RPG - show cycle optimization
I have this RPG game and this has elements such as the map, the monsters and the items. The monsters and the items are stored in Lists and every time I want to show ...
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Connect Four in Java for two human players
Connect Four kinda caught my eye, and I decided to start from the very basics. Here I have bare-bones implementation for playing the game between two human players on the command line:
Board.java
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Countdown Timer for Tests
I created this countdown timer as a tool to count down the remaining time on a test a few months ago. However, I looked at the code today and it looks like it needs some improvement, but I'm not sure ...
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Simple C# application that transfers new files (modified in the last 24 hours) from one directory to another
I'm new to C#, so I'm eager for any and all criticism/advice.
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Moving files while preserving the folder structure
I'm writing a console application that will look through a directory and move any log files that have a date modified older than X days (configurable in the ...
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Basic C# calculator code
I have not had any experience with coding before, and after beginning to learn I stated working on this calculator which runs different functions on the console. I'd like to hopefully be taught what I ...
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Simple TicTacToe game in C++
I just started learning C++, and this is one of my projects. It's just a simple 2-player (No AI) TicTacToe game that runs from the console. The project was to familiarize myself with arrays, so review ...
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Getting keyboard input for real-time console application
I've been building an IDE using C# and only the console. To get keyboard input in real time (as opposed to a read–eval–print loop,) I have the following method to get keyboard input:
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Minimize the console window to tray
I have a small console application that runs a very long task and I would like to hide the console window when I click on the minimize button but keep a notify icon in the system tray so that I would ...
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First C# program (Snake game)
I've just started out using C#. I've used Scratch (drag and drop programming for kids) for quite some time. Since Scratch didn't have classes and methods I have a feeling this code could be a lot more ...
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C++ Console variables
I've written some code for console variables. They support different types e.g. integer, string, vector, float, etc.
Is there a better way to do this? Like with an interface and a class for each ...
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Displaying a table of shell aliases
I'm just getting into bash and sh scripting. I mostly just stub out little convenience or exercise scripts for myself, but I recognize I may be flaunting best practices at times.
My question is ...
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First program: a simple calculator
I'm reading this very good book, C# Player's Guide, to learn C#. I then plan to make video games with Unity 3D after.
In one of the chapters, he asks us to make a (really) simple calculator as a ...
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png2jpeg, a utility for converting PNG to JPEG (rev. 2/3)
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Revision 1
Revision 2 (you are here)
Revision 3
png2jpeg is a simple command-line converter of PNG to JPEG.
The source code requires the libpng and libjpeg development libraries to be ...
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C# console roulette game
I made a C# console roulette game. Check it out and give opinions on how to improve or ideas for some other features? It's not finished yet so it has lots of room for improvement. I am very new so ...
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A Java library for formatting console output
In perl, there is that format facility for console output. I thought it might be good to practice some library design instead of algorithms once in a while. This may be compared to a GUI library: you ...
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png2jpeg, a utility for converting PNG to JPEG (rev. 1/3)
Revisions:
Revision 1 (you are here)
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Revision 3
I've been working on a simple command-line png2jpeg utility. Its purpose is to convert images from PNG format to JPEG.
The source code ...
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Prompt system from reading a text file
I worked starting from basic example code from an exercise in chapter 10 of Java: A Beginner's Guide, Sixth Edition, the code in the exercise was not very good and I wanted to improve upon it and make ...
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Copy directory to multiple directories - I/O performance matters
I am working on below python copy utility that should work on windows & linux,
But I am looking for a more efficient approach that could optimize my I/O correction, as my target location is ...
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Template for PHP service (/etc/init.d) script
I wanted a template for a service script that is versatile and easily configurable.
Along with producing similar outputs to the SSH and Samba daemons, I request the code to be as clean, simple and ...
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A command line Java program for computing grade point average - follow-up
(See the previous and initial iteration.)
I have refactored the API based on excellent review by cbojar. Also, a honorary mention goes to janos for pruning some unnecessary code out of the transcript ...
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A command line Java program for computing grade point average
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I have this command line program for computing GPA (grade point average). Given credit sequence \$\langle c_1, c_2, \dots, c_n \rangle\$ and grade sequence \$\langle g_1, ...
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Coloring a string in a terminal
I have this code which makes it easy to color a string in terminal but it is looking really repetitive. Is there a more idiomatic way of writing this? Also is there a functional way of doing this more ...
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Text-based Dungeon Crawl game
This code is an answer to an exercise I found on the cplusplus forums.
I'm a beginner so any reviews will be appreciated :)
Make a program that outputs a simple grid based gameboard to the screen ...
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CLI Twitter client in Python
Here is a simple client for Wwitter that I wrote based on the twitter library in Python. The aim is to be able to read the feeds from different twitter accounts ...
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Interactive command line YouTube downloader with option to burn subtitles into video
This is only used on Mac machines. I know that there is a Python implementation of youtube-dl and several for ffmpeg, however I chose to use subprocess so that I can see the real-time stdout/stderr ...
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Application for encrypting and decrypting files in Java - follow-up
(Everything needed for running the app is here.)
I have refactored my previous version a bit.
App.java:
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Application for encrypting and decrypting files in Java
(See the next iteration.)
I have that application for en-/decrypting files. Here, I will post the actual GUI and command line code. In order to run the program refer to this GitHub repository.
Some ...
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File creation program
I have written a program that is very simple, with a very specific purpose. However, having written it in approximately 2 hours, (with a bit of cut/paste from some of my other programs and MSDN) it's ...
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Bash script menu
Any comments on this?
Like there is a way to get rid of all the if-statements or a better way to # check model and build (which ...
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First Tic Tac Toe game
I've been learning Objective C for a few days so to test my skills I went ahead and made a simple Tic Tac Toe game using the console. I already have some experience with languages such as C++, Java ...
