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First off, I visit this site quite regularly, but I've never posted. I find lots of help here and thought I'd return the favor. I recently worked on a project t...

[5 replies] Last: It's much clearer to use regular expressions to stuff like this. Esp. ... (by zeeme)

by Aakanaar

Conditionals - The true or false story

I have yet again seen a piece of code similar to the following very common mistake if (chr == 'Y' || 'y') // this will always return true do_something; /...

[10 replies] Last: Er, actually there are a couple more. ∧ conjunction ... (by Duthomhas)

by asadulla

Recusion Types

Introduction Here I am going to give a detail about Recursion in C++. Definition: Recursion is the process where a function is called itself but stack frame ...

[1 reply] : Dear Assadulla In non-reursive processes , the unknown is defined by... (by Massoud Raji)

by exception

double - and how to use it

This article shows some properties of "double" atithmetic, and what you can and can't do with it. NB: it requires UTF-8 support for mathematic symbols. 0. M...

[2 replies] Last: Check your first corollary in part two Oops. Fixed. Another thi... (by exception)

by Duthomhas

Rounding Algorithms

There are a zillion different ways to round floating point values to integers. C and C++ provide a couple basic ones in <math.h> or <cmath>. There are two ge...

[4 replies] Last: The round half down did exactly what it should have. Given a number ex... (by Duthomhas)

by closed account z05DSL3A

[DRAFT] How To: Recursion

As Recursion seems to pop-up every now and then I have started to write an Article on it (I will hopefully have it ready in a few days, time permitting). If any...

[14 replies] Last: It's harder to debug a recursive function. (by Zaita)

by QWERTYman

The unofficial Beginner's tutorial

The Basics Welcome to the C++ tutorial! Please follow all instructions on a source file. Ready? Good! Now, to begin...

[2 replies] Last: Sorry, wrote it all in an IDE, instead of on the web first. I will edi... (by QWERTYman)

by QWERTYman

[ANOTHER DRAFT]How To: Private Access in Classes

This article assumes that you know what a class is, and how to declare one, as well as how to create an object of said class. However, something that usually...

[4 replies] Last: Encapsulation is also handy because the underlying member variable may... (by dooglio)

by freedomhua

Customize Your Applications with Innovative Skin

skinfeature is a mature, stable, and comprehensive GUI design software solution that allows you to create custom skins for your new or legacy Windows based ap...

[1 reply] : It'd be nice if there was some documentation, sample source code on th... (by Zaita)

by bnbertha

C++ Templates and Libraries for Working with Threads

Not sure how well known this open source project is but I've been using it for a couple of months now and it is quite impressive: http://www.threadingbuildingb...

[2 replies] Last: I haven't tried integrating it into exisiting code, it was a new proje... (by bnbertha)

by closed account z05DSL3A

How to: Put code into your postings

When posting code in your question or answer; displaying the code in a nicely formatted manner helps all those involved in the tread to quickly understand the c...

[1 reply] : thanks (by ablya)

by siavoshkc

You want to build a program but where to start?

You want to build a program but where to start? OK, I'll tell you. This should be done in the following steps: 1. Specifications 2. Design 3. Implementation...

[7 replies] Last: The class definition is probably not the best example for beginners. ... (by Faldrax)

by amro

Inheritance Rules

class person { int ID; protected: int salary; public : string name; }; class employee : access_specifior person { int num; public : string emplo...

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by Graham

The Pointer

NOTE: This is just because a lot of beginners need a grasp on this concept. WHAT IT IS ---------- Pointers are addresses. The can be assigned, or made to...

[8 replies] Last: Ropez, The first quote is from a disuction of the need for nullptr in... (by closed account z05DSL3A)

by Graham

Dynamic allocation in C/C++

WHAT IT IS ---------- Dynamic allocation is the automatic allocation of memory in C/C++, Unlike declarations, which load data onto the programs data segment...

[2 replies] Last: Graham: >>dynamic allocation creates new usable space on the progra... (by satm2008)

by siavoshkc

Array is not pointer

With many thanks for these useful tutorials, I felt it's necessary to send this text about pointers and arrays. Unfortunately pulling out something wrong that i...

[1 reply] : You have a point, but you have one flaw: ARRAYS ARE CONSTANT POINTE... (by Graham)

by Sacha

Making Games in C++

In order to make a successful and user- friendly game in C++, we need to remember the following things: First of all, simplicity is the key. Of course, if you ...

[4 replies] Last: it is nice thanx but it is nearly a C code. Classes are important in p... (by leo)

by PWWWWR

Game Programming with DarkGDK

The Game Creators (http://www.thegamecreators.com) have developed a C++ framework that uses Direct X and Visual C++ 2008 Express to make games. The easy to use...

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by trolltalk

Tired of shifting bits?

I've looked at one too many pieces of source code that uses bit shifting along with bitwise ANDs to extract a value from a larger data size (for example, an IP...

[1 reply] : Unions are lots of fun. Though for individual bits, wouldn't a 32-long... (by AzraelUK)

by siavoshkc

The difference between pointers and arrays

The difference between pointers and arrays I have seen in many places that an array is introduced as a pointer. This is technically not correct. Arrays are n...

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