I am making a Tic Tac Toe game and can't figure out why my comp is making two random moves at the end. I will gladly supply more or all of the code, please ask. I just can't tell if it is making the mistakes outside of this function. Please bear with me because I am relatively new. def comp...

I have this pseudocode from my Qustion implement striping algorithm C++ I want to see did I implement the answer in right way int numLines = 1; while(!residenceFile.eof()) { residenceFile >> res.x >>res.y; //distancess.push_back(populate_distancesVector(res,foodbankData)); if...

I am looking for a word match library that can be used for "text suggestion" drop down menu. Few criteria of what I am talking about: The .search or indexOf will match with anything but don't differentiate words like "The", "An"... in beginning of the string. For example, if query=the, then i...

I need to concatenate a bunch of delimited text files. In the process, I need to add a new column to the data based on part of the name of one of the directories containing each file. The script works, but I have a feeling that it is inelegant in the extreme. In particular, I'm wondering whether...

I was referred here from StackOverflow, so here is what I posted over there: So, for an assignment, I have to construct a binary search tree, plus an assortment of related functions. I have them all working, but I'm looking for a way to optimize my way of finding in-order predecessors and succes...

I am going to link Vote Early, Vote Often because this question/discussion has a lot to do with the whole voting scenario. the Question, do you think we have a problem with people not down voting for fear of losing precious Reputation on Code Review? Down Voting Questions do not cost you any ...

I have written a common class for finding display sizes in pre-honeycomb and for latest versions of android. Could anyone review my code and suggest me possible modifications in this code. I would love to do follow beautiful coding standards. import android.annotation.TargetApi; import android....

My question is for validation of my code (any loop holes / bugs) and guidance the best methodology to implement for my requirement. I am developing a Python application that will have many classes. We need to communicate in between each class - pass data's. It would be very clumsy if across all...

My question is for validation of my code (any loop holes / bugs) and guidance the best methodology to implement for my requirement. I am developing a Python application that will have many classes. We need to communicate in between each class - pass data. It would be very clumsy if across all c...

I'm adding a function to my test library to assist in testing if two IDictionary objects contain the same keys/values. I need the method to be generic and support a dictionary that has collections as values. So I thought I'd try to do it without using class types. It appears to be working, but ...

So, I would like to modify the json.loads() function to accept a new keyword parameter, but not have it just be a part of kwargs. In other words, I want it be an explicit part of the function's signature. Here's my guess on how to do this. def json_to_python_syntax(json_method): """ Tr...

I'm currently working on a BMI calculator and just wondered if there was a shorter or more condensed version of doing the if validating statement. I have currently done it this way for both Height and Weight, but I find it to be a mess and it seems to cluttered. There must be a way of shortening...

I have the following code that I hope developers will use. [LKOauth showLogin: self data: data success: ^(NSString * code) { NSLog(@"%@", code); } cancel: ^(void) { // user canceled } failure: ^(NSError * ...

The system allows the user to submit over the web a function definition that is run immediately and can take any amount of time to complete (or even run forever like 'generate next prime number'). This is the design to address how to show the result in a web application the finished or unfinishe...

My instructions are as follows. Write an application to count the number of days that the temperature is above average. Read ten temperatures from the keyboard and place them in an array. Compute the average temperature and then count and display the number of days on which the temperature was ab...

I am working on a rather simple script that I just can't seem to get right. It basically uses two inputs - a data file and a "stop" file. The data-file is composed of 4 tab-separated columns. The idea of the script is this: if a string in Column 1 of the data file matches a string in the "stop ...

I'm wondering what people think about Dependency Injection vs Service Locator patterns. Specifically I'm using Prism with MEF. I'm also using the MVVM pattern. So I have a service which I export. I also have a class which doesn't export its class type as I don't need that to be registered with M...

Well, I'm kind of new to C++ and was just wondering if anyone could give me tips on how I could make my code more efficient (I added some comments to the code to help you understand it better). Is it a good idea to use switch cases? Is there a way I can use more functions/arrays/points? Source ...

I did most of my PHP coding back with PHP 4, and among the projects I did was a popular pagination class. I've been meaning to bring it up to date with PHP 5 and OOP practices. I've also been working on updating my database code, using PDO over the deprecated mysql* functions. What I'd like from ...

I have some code that's taking over 3 seconds to complete. I'm just wondering if there's a faster way to do this. I have a string with anywhere from 10 to 70 rows of data. I break it up into an array and then loop through the array to find specific patterns. $this->_data = str_rep...

How can I optimise this game level code? OR achieve the same outcome simpler? It copies the level graphics but uses a scale parameter, If scale is 1 it copies a screen size segment, if 2 it copies a half screen size piece and scales it to the screen size etc. public void render(Graphics g)...

I recently wrote a code for a encoder and decoder that works off of a key and the only way to decode the message is with this program and the case-sensitive key. I have yet to incorporate punctuation but that will come soon. I am currently designing a GUI using the Tkinter module. I would love a...

I made some code to generate date ranges in SQL server 2005 and above. I am not sure if there will be any problems in this. Can you find any bugs or limitations in my code ? Declare @StartDate DateTime Declare @EndDate DateTime Set @StartDate='2012-10-15 15:17:20.000' Set @EndDate=GetDate() ;wi...

I recently wrote a small demo that allows users to send and receive files from an HTML5 Javascript application. It's all server-side. I thought this would be a good place to get feedback about what I've done. It's hosted here: http://danielsadventure.info/HTML5FileDemo/ <!DOCTYPE html> <html ...