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I found these questions on a web site and wish to share with all of u out there,Can SomeOne Solve these Porgramming puzzles. Programming Puzzles Some companies certainly ask for these things. Specially Microsoft. Here are my favorite puzzles. Don't send me emails asking for the solutions.

In my "Happy Christmas" message, I proposed a function to read a file into a RAM buffer and return that buffer or NULL if the file doesn't exist or some other error is found. It is interesting to see that the answers to that message prove that programming exclusively in standard C is completely impossible even for a small and ridiculously...

Hi everyone, I'm a big Python fan who used to be involved semi regularly in comp.lang.python (lots of lurking, occasional posting) but kind of trailed off a bit. I just wrote a frustration inspired rant on my blog, and I thought it was relevant enough as a wider issue to the Python community to post here for your discussion and...

After working in c# for a year, the only conclusion I can come to is that I wish I knew c. All I need is Linux, the gnu c compiler and I can do anything. Web services are just open sockets hooked up to interfaces. The Gtk is more than enough gui.

Python, Lambda, and Guido van Rossum Xah Lee, 2006-05-05 In this post, i'd like to deconstruct one of Guido's recent blog about lambda in Python. In Guido's blog written in 2006-02-10 at http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358

The webpages for my new book are now up and running. The book, Basic Algorithms, describes many of the fundamental algorithms used in practical programming, with a bias towards graphics. It includes mathematical routines from the basics up, including floating point arithmetic, compression techniques, including the GIF and JPEG file formats,...

It would be really nice if C could adopt a really nice algorithms library like C++'s STL + BOOST. The recent "reverse the words in this sentence" problem posted made me think about it. It's like 5 lines to do it in C++ because of all the nifty algorithms that come with the language (I think BOOST is going to get bolted on to the C++...

If I have: struct one_{ unsigned int one_1; unsigned short one_2; unsigned short one_3; }; struct two_{ unsigned int two_1;

Hi I'm developing a program and the client is worried about future reuse of the code. Say 5, 10, 15 years down the road. This will be a major factor in selecting the development language. Any comments on past experience, research articles, comments on the matter would be much appreciated. I suspect something like C would be the best based on...

Just out of curiosity, while checking on a site I was working on, I decided to throw a couple of the web's most popular URLs into the W3C Markup Validator. Out of microsoft.com, google.com, amazon.com, yahoo.com, aol.com, and mozilla.org, only Mozilla's site came back "Valid HTML". So if all these places, with their teams of web...

As per Google's Usenet archives http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html], the first discussion of the Y2K problem on the Usenet was on January 18 1985 http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=820%40reed.UUCP]. That is a good 15 years before the problem manifested. Even then, it turned out, we were scrambling for cover...

Hi Does any body know, how to round a double value with a specific number of digits after the decimal points? A function like this: RoundMyDouble (double &value, short numberOfPrecisions) It then updates the value with numberOfPrecisions after the decimal

I have posted a quick survey at <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/width.shtml>. There's only one question: select the widest line that fits in your normal browser window. Your assistance is appreciated. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com>

http://www.junglecreatures.com/ Try it and tell me what's happenning in the Microsoft Corporation. Notes: VB, C# are CLS compliant

Can anyone suggest me a good compiler for(c/cpp) for windows? I tried dev cpp but its debugging facility is very poor.

Hi I'm developing a program and the client is worried about future reuse of the code. Say 5, 10, 15 years down the road. This will be a major factor in selecting the development language. Any comments on past experience, research articles, comments on the matter would be much appreciated. I suspect something like C would be the best based on...

what is the difference between the tree storage durations(static,automatic and dynamic) in C?

My question is more generic, but it involves what I consider ANSI standard C and portability. I happen to be a system admin for multiple platforms and as such a lot of the applications that my users request are a part of the OpenSource community. Many if not most of those applications strongly require the presence of the GNU compiling...

Anyone out there using beta 2 in production situations? Comments on stability? I am rolling out a project in the next 4 weeks, and really don't want to go though an upgrade soon after its released on an Unsuspecting Client, so I would LIKE to start working with 7.4. -------------------- Andrew Rawnsley President The Ravensfield Digital...

Seeing as there are loads of funny pictures out there, I thought we could collect the funniest ones. They can, however don't have to be, IT related. Comics or Fotos, Screenshots or edited Images - whatever you think is funny, can be posted here. I'll start with this one:http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/babies.png(originally from...

I think you would agree with me that a C compiler that directly produces Java Byte Code to be run on any JVM is something that is missing to software programmers so far. With such a tool one could stay with C and still be able to produce Java byte code for platform independent apps. Also, old programs (with some tweaking) could be...

I have access to a wide variety of different platforms here at JPL and they all have pretty good C 99 compilers. Some people claim that they have not moved to the new standard because of the lack of C 99 compliant compilers. Is this just a lame excuse for back-sliding?

'evening. I'm not new to C and have been programming in it since I was 8 but here's a strange problem I've never seen before. When I compile a program from our C course with a windows compiler there is no problem but when I try to compile it with a linux compiler it complains that a_03.c:(.text+0x4d): warning: the `gets' function is...

I'm working on examples of programming in several languages, all (except PHP) running under CGI so that I can show both the source files and the actually running of the examples online. The first set of examples, after decoding the HTML FORM contents, merely verifies the text within a field to make sure it is a valid representation of an...

Hello, I saw on a couple of recent posts people saying that casting the return value of malloc is bad, like: d=(double *) malloc(50*sizeof(double)); why is this bad? I had always thought (perhaps mistakenly) that the purpose of a void pointer was to cast into a legitimate date type. Is this wrong? Why, and what is considered to be...