I know references are syntactic sugar, so code is easier to read and write. But what are the differences? Summary from answers and links bel
Continue ReadingC++: GUI Enabling/Disabling of Controls
In addition to fundamental GUI component interaction, an application should dynamically enable and disable GUI components, to give some guidance to th
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Some languages provide the facility to declare functions and subroutines through the use of function prototyping. The task is to demonstrate the metho
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Assertions are a way of breaking out of code when there is an error or an unexpected input. Some languages throw exceptions and some treat it as a bre
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This page lists the conditional structures offered by different programming languages. Common conditional structures are if-then-else and switch. Tem
Continue ReadingC++: Address of a Variable
Get the address Note that void* is a "pure" address which doesn't carry the type information anymore. If you need the type information (e.g. to recov
Continue ReadingC++: Delegate Behavior to Derived Classes
INTENT Delegate behavior to derived classes without incurring the cost of run-time polymorphism. DESCRIPTION With the Curiously Recurring Tem
Continue ReadingC++: CSV to HTML Translation
Consider a simplified CSV format where all rows are separated by a newline and all columns are separated by commas. No commas are allowed as field dat
Continue ReadingC++: Globally Replace Text in Several Files
The task is to replace every occurring instance of a piece of text in a group of text files with another one. For this task we want to replace the tex
Continue ReadingC++: File Size
In this task, the job is to verify the size of a file called "input.txt" for a file in the current working directory and another one in the file syste
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