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Quickly finding and sorting data is a very important part for many developers as it allows users to search and find data quickly. While many languages have built in sorting algorithms, sometimes we only have a template that we need to finish. This is especially true for complex data types which aren’t as easy to…
As a programmer, you only have to worry about the top element in the queue and the last element. This is because you will enqueue, or add items to the end of the queue, and dequeue, or remove the first, or top, element of the queue. When you add an item to the queue, you…
Since arrays must be made of a contiguous section of memory, large arrays become harder to allocate memory for them, especially as the application becomes more complex. Therefore, developers will often look to using something like a linked list. A linked list incorporates a custom data type. One of the data types which makes it…
An array is not really a datatype, but a collection of variables, (usually) of the same type. However, arrays are handled differently in different languages. Sometimes they act as an object, and thus there is an Array Class, sometimes it is a pointer to memory, usually their size is static, but not always. Each language…
In part 1 of Using an OS, we looked at user management, basic security, and file explorer. While Windows has made it easier to store files logically, it is still up to the user. Too often I’ve seen people with hundreds of files on their desktop. Often there, just “temporarily” until they no longer need…
Where client side programming is focused on mainly JavaScript at this point, server side programming has several popular programming languages including, but not limited to, PHP, ASP.Net, Ruby, Python, Java, and many more. The languages that are picked have to deal with what the developer is comfortable with, what the server is capable of handling,…
There used to be several client side languages, however, now almost all client side programming is done with JavaScript. JavaScript is a scripting language which directly interacts with the web browser. All of the interaction is done on the client’s side. It is most often used for simple things like form validation and moving items…
People are the primary driving factor in any project, but especially software development. Managers will often say this, but their actions will sometimes prove otherwise. There are different roles that people will have, and they need to know what is expected of them, and be able to perform that task with the skill required. Unfortunately,…
