How do you start programming in a new language or technology?
Do you take time to unlearn some of the specific things you've learnt, read up documentation and then dive into coding or do you start off coding and then pick up specifics as you go?
I need to create a simple program/utility to parse a txt file (deleting blank rows, concatenating lines, etc) that runs in Windows XP and can be called from a Windows command line. What programming language/environment best fits this type of application?
Thanks, I hope I'm not being vague.
which database should I use, if my application is going to be in multiple languages (including Chinese, Japanese etc)? In other words, is MySQL better or worse than Postgres to handle unicode etc? (these are the only two databases my hosting company has)
Also, which language is better for handling unicode? PHP or Ruby/Rails?
I writed a component for joomla
I want use more than once language.Ex english & Itatly
But i don't know how to do it.
Use component joomfish but only effect with component exsist on this joomla version,
not effect with my component ?
How to config my component ?
Are there any good OOP languages that you can use on Linux? Obviously Java comes to mind, even running C# under mono.
Looking for a language that can be used for all round development, web dev, desktop, services etc.
Besides Mono C# and Java anything else come to mind?
Given the fact that most statistics on the web are not extremely accurate, I thought I would ask on StackOverflow what languages are most popular in our job market.
1 answer for each programming-language. If you use that, you can upvote it.
What is cardinality in MySQL? PLease explain simple non technical language...
If a index detail of any table displays the Cardinality of a field say group_id as 11, then what does that mean?
i wonder what language Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote google with?
not the languages that are used today, but for the version launched from their dorm.
thanks
When I code, I always write little pieces of unit, and compile it often. This helps me to make sure that everything run correctly, but it's very time consumed. is there any programming language that can support us to do coding and running at the same time side by side ? i mean as soon as a key press leads to valid code, the effect of the edit is incorporated into the executing program.
Hi, everyone:
As the title described, how to use c library function fgets in assembly language? Indeed, I want to know how to get the file pointer to stdin. Thanks for your reply.
So I am required to write a fairly basic Windows service and have never done so before. Of C#, C++ (the Visual Studio suite), what is the best language to develop in? I am a student, and am most familiar with OO languages such as Java.
Additionally, if anyone can recommend any books, articles, or google searches that would be relevant to the project I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
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Right now I am going through MIT's introduction to Computer Science course via OpenCourseWare. As a part of this course I am learning the Python Language.
I've read a lot of things about the benefits of learning C. Before I dig any deeper into Python I wonder if I will be hindered or helped by learning Python first.
Do you think that I will develop any bad habits or anything like that from Python?
What language is smart so that it could understand 'variable a = 0 , 20, ..., 300' ? so you could esely create arrays with it giving step start var last var (or, better no last variable (a la infinit array)) and not only for numbers (but even complex numbers...)
for site which language is chinese what should i choose @font-face or sIFR for custom fonts? and which charset i should choose?
Any typography, license free fonts suggestion would be appreciated.
Hello,
I'm using windows 7 english and I want to know how to see the microsoft speech language and to see if the speech recognition is active.
How can I do it using python?
I was looking at the W3C specs for the script tag, and I noticed you can specify VB and TCL as a language type. This is extremely new to me; I've only ever seen Javascript used with the script tag.
Why aren't other languages more commonly used, and is there a complete list of languages you can use within this tag?
I had this:
if Setting["Language"] == "en":
f.m_radioBox3.SetSelection(0)
elif Setting["Language"] == "pt":
f.m_radioBox3.SetSelection(1)
elif Setting["Language"] == "fr":
f.m_radioBox3.SetSelection(2)
elif Setting["Language"] == "es":
f.m_radioBox3.SetSelection(3)
Then I did this:
Linguas = ["en","pt","fr","es"]
a = 0
for i in Linguas:
if i == Setting["Language"]:
f.m_radioBox3.SetSelection(a)
a += 1
Is it possible to further simplify this and make it into a one-liner?
I have a page that Google Chrome insists on thinking is in French.
Here's a snapshot of it:
http://yootles.com/outbox/overcleverchrome.html
Note that I'm including a meta http-equiv tag to tell it that it's in fact in English:
<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
But it doesn't help.
Is there anything else I can do to prevent this?
Hi, I want to work in sifr 2 with right to left language. But it seems that flash 8 doesnt support to unicode or r-t-l fonts.
Please help.....
Thanking in advance.
Even though we have languages like C++, Java, Python etc., why is COBOL still a preferred language in the business world?
EDIT:
Why was it so popular?
Sorry for not creating a separate thread for this question.
It seems pretty common to me to have an argument, in a dynamically typed language that is either an Object or a key to lookup that object. For instance when I'm working with a database I might have a method getMyRelatedStuff(person)
All I really need to lookup the related stuff is the id of the person so my method could look like this in python:
def getMyRelatedStuff(person_or_id):
id = person_or_id.id if isinstance(person,User) else person_or_id
#do some lookup
Or going the other direction:
def someFileStuff(file_or_name):
file = file_or_name if hasattr(file,'write') else open(file_or_name)