Two words.
Lookup tables.
Here's one I randomly found on the internet:
All you gotta do is make a 2D array, populate it with the right values (enum?), and alter your play(Card upCard) method to use the lookup table.
That solves your complexity issue, your implicit data storage (you're tryin...
You have a lot of if statements in your SQL. This screams at me that you are doing something in your SQL that should be done in the application, and that this SQL should be separated into two distinct stored procedures.
The benefits of doing this:
Faster stored procedures
Use a coding langua...
The function below takes a datestring in the form d-mmm-yyyy and converts it to ISO date format (yyyy-mm-dd). Delimiters may be hyphen, space or /, and Dutch or English month abbreviations may be used.
Now, I know there is dateutil, but it returns unknown string format if you try to parse som...
I wrote a function that inserts or updates a Map key value depending on whether the key is already in the map. If it is, then the value gets added to the already existing map's value.
import Data.Map as Map
updateMap :: (Ord k, Num v) => k -> v -> Map k v -> Map k v
updateMap k v map = if membe...
Today I decided to learn some basic Haskell, and for starters I made a program for calculating the checksum of a Swedish personal identification number. It uses the Luhn-algorithm, aka. IBM MOD-10.
Explanation of this code can be found on Swedish Wikipedia and English Wikipedia
Here's a descrip...
Inspired by a recent question to shorten URLs in a file, I came up with this Python script to improve over the Bash implementation:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import os
import re
import urllib2
import json
re_url_pattern = re.compile(r'http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&+]|[!*\(\),]|(?:...
I'm new to programming, and the first language I'm trying to learn is python.
To try out the concepts and tools I've been learning, I decided to write a blackjack game. I wrote it entirely with functions, so it hasn't helped me at all with the concept I really lack understanding in: classes. ...
Why is there no isCancelled method for a java.util.Timer object?
I would like to schedule a task if the Timer has not been cancelled, and run it directly (on the same thread) if it has been cancelled.
Is the only option to catch the IllegalStateException that might occur if the Timer already ha...
Wrong Approach
I think what you are trying to do makes sense, however I think that your row-by-row approach is what is making this so slow. Anything you do row-by-row with SQL (e.g., a cursor or loop) will be slow because you are executing the whole section of query anew for each row. All SQL is...
hmm why it's not working? what i'm doing wrong? http://jsfiddle.net/ukrs7/14/
I also came up with this, based on Shannon entropy.
In information theory, entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable. In this context, the term usually refers to the Shannon entropy, which quantifies the expected value of the information contained in a message,...
I found the following code, which is used to write and parse CSV files, on the web. However, it seems it cannot handle the cases such as "|" delimited CSV file. Also does it violate any SOLID principle?
/// <summary>
/// Determines how empty lines are interpreted when reading CSV files.
/// The...
Basically what i am doing is i got 3 processes which i loop through.
The first process is encoding Video, it's actually 2 processes but they are connected so i don't need to worry about how it handles the other one.
The second and third are connected by me however. One reads and the other write...
I am trying to learn PHP in depth by creating this personal CMS. I try to utilize OOP concepts and do best I can...
The way I am trying to design this CMS is to keep including 'modules' within a page to minimize code. I am using extensively POST and GET variables to decide which module will be r...
Consider:
let mutable m' = m
while m' % i = 0L do
m' <- m' / i
I've refactored it into:
let m' =
let rec exhaust m =
if m % i = 0L then exhaust (m/i)
else m
exhaust m
but it's pretty obvious to me th...
<codez> Thanks for sharing this code </codez>
Thank you for requesting this review. As I worked on a better solution, I forced myself to accidentally understand a great use for JS Iterators & Generators, which I've been reading about. I spent probably 6 hours today fiddlin...
