This may be applicable: An Open Letter to Students with Homework Problems. — HABO 10 secs ago

SO is for specific questions related to programming (code) or use of programmers tools. You'll find your experiences here will be much better if you spend some time taking the tour and reading the help center pages to learn how the site works before you begin posting. — Ken White 56 secs ago

Also Software Engineering may be more appropriate. StackOverflow is more for when you have actual code that's giving you trouble, and you can't find out how to fix it. — Aaron 11 secs ago

This site is for specific questions related to programming or use of programmers tools. You'll find your experiences here will be much better if you spend some time taking the tour and reading the help center pages to learn how the site works before you begin posting. — Ken White 53 secs ago

Welcome to Stack Overflow. This site is for specific questions related to programming (code) or use of programmers tools. You'll find your experiences here will be much better if you spend some time taking the tour and reading the help center pages to learn how the site works before you begin posting. — Ken White 32 secs ago

Welcome to Stack Overflow. SO is a question and answer page for professional and enthusiast programmers. Please add your own code to your question. You are expected to show at least the amount of research you have put into solving this question yourself. — Cyrus 49 secs ago

Questions like "is there a more efficient way" or "are there existing designs" are IMHO too broad. It's important that when one writes an answer to a question, one can have confidence that the answer that is written is the answer to the question. Open-ended design questions may be more suitable on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com. — Peter Duniho 1 min ago

Welcome to Stack Overflow. SO is a question and answer page for professional and enthusiast programmers. Please add your own code to your question. You are expected to show at least the amount of research you have put into solving this question yourself. — Cyrus 30 secs ago

@SoftwareEngineer You are absolutely right! I have adapted this immediately. — ZPascal 39 secs ago

@fuz - that is so sad, on all the forums, they say begin with this book, to learn assembly language, i guess they were real programmers using linux systems, not just some "wannabe" coders like me sitting on a useless fancy hyped up mac .. any ways i guess i will wait , till i can afford a system for linux ... thanks all — multiverse 39 secs ago

Hi @edbert-ong, you may have more luck at 'Software Recommendations':softwarerecs.stackexchange.com. — BakaKuna 24 secs ago

Please, post text as text, not as photographs of text. This is a website for programmers, not photographers. We want to copy&paste&run your code, copy&paste your inputs, read your outputs, and copy&paste&google your error messages, not critique your use of color and perspective. Also, please make sure to post everything relevant to answering your question in your question, not on some third-party site somewhere else. meta.stackoverflow.com/a/285557/2988 idownvotedbecau.se/imageofcode idownvotedbecau.se/imageofanexception — Jörg W Mittag 59 secs ago

This is a programming question and is better suited for Stack Overflow than this site. There are genealogists here, not programmers. — lkessler 59 secs ago

The second variant (with the initialization at definition site) is less risky. Even if the definition and assignment are right next to each other now, future programmers on the code might add other statements in between, and then the risk of using the variable uninitialized increases. So I recommend the second variant. But it's still a matter or personal preference and subjective. — Some programmer dude just now

Welcome to Stack Overflow. SO is a question and answer page for professional and enthusiast programmers. Please add your own code to your question. You are expected to show at least the amount of research you have put into solving this question yourself. — Cyrus 27 secs ago

Read the Open letter to students with homework problems. — CL. 20 secs ago