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Programming Challenge 71 Published

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:58:34 +0000

And I 've just realised that no one has missed the input.txt from challenge 70 (it will be there by Sunday evening!).

This month's challenge is about veruifying if html files are valid or have overlapping html tags. These are the tags your program must check:

is ok but

is not. The tags in question are limited to

tags, it should also handle ,

, , and tags (and their closing tags).

Read Programming Challenge 71 - Unweave tags
Enter Programming Challenge 70 - Shoot the targets.

One Step Forward to MOOC's Accreditation

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:05:04 +0000

The Georgia Institute of Technology along with Udacity and AT&T will be offering the the first accredited Online Master of Science in Computer Science, for a cost estimated at under $7,000 starting in Fall 2014. It will be open to anyone in the world who has a BSc in Computer Science.
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SQLite with C Third Tutorial Published

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:39:24 +0000

This tutorial shows how to insert a row of data into a table, using binding of parameters.

This carries on from the second tutorial and uses the same tables created there. It includes a short function to run a sql select query and in the next tutorial, I'll turn the code more into an easier to use library.
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Internet Programming and C

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:18:36 +0000

As well as Wifi there are other ways to connect up cities with the internet. How about a network of wireless connected low power battery driven sensor devices that communicate wirelessly and can work across the internet?
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Switching to C99

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:49:47 +0000

As long term readers of here will know, I like using Microsoft Visual Studio (in both the commercial and the excellent free version). But it's a source of frustration to C developers everywhere, myself included that Microsoft's C support is barely much beyond K & R C.
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Impressive Demo of Epic Citadel

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:33:34 +0000
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Latest SQLite tutorial with C published

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:32:58 +0000

This tutorial is a bit on the long side as it includes all the code for populating a small database with three tables and the C code to run a sql select query.
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Programming Challenge 69 Marked

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:21:12 +0000

Thank you to all four who entered: Arun Prakash M, Mark Mammel, Michael Chock and Ron Spain. However it was a tricky challenge not helped by two errors (well one and a half) so I've decided to call it a draw.
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Microsoft Launches WebMatrix 3

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:46:45 +0000

This is the third incarnation of their free lightweight, cloud connected web development tool that lets you develop websites easily using ASP.NET, PHP and Node.js and integrates with Windows Azure; the Microsoft Cloud.
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How to Use Stack in C#

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:26:51 +0000

Continuing the C# series on collection classes, I've just published How to use the Stack in C#. I suspect it's not one of the widest used collections as a stack object isn't something I make much use of.

But I'm going for completeness and a stack is probably used as much as a queue. That said I can't think that I've ever used one of those in my life either!

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