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How to Avoid, Find (and fix) Memory Errors in Your C/C++ Code

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:19:00 EST

Explore the different types of memory errors and how to use Intel Parallel Inspector to debug your code

The Secret to Learning Anything

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:33:00 EST

Some of the most important lessons I learned in college came from one professor, Michael Mitzenmacher. Now, this was a guy with a lot of papers to his name, tenured at Harvard, working on some pretty darn complicated computer science theory (I took his algorithms class). So you'd expect that I'd learn something important. But as it turned out, the biggest lessons I learned from him weren't on the topics he taught. I learned a secret that helped me learn much more effectively.

Programming Practice Problem - Temperature Conversion

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:25:00 EST

A practice program for beginners--write a program that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit and puts it into a nicely formatted table

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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:42:00 EST

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Programming Practice Problem - Computing File Size

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:48:00 EST

In this challenge, given the name of a file, print out the size of the file, in bytes. If no file is given, provide a help string to the user that indicates how to use the program. You might need help with taking parameters via the command line or file I/O in C++ (if you want to solve this problem in C, you might be interested in this article on C file I/O).

5 Ways You can Learn Programming Faster

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:08:00 EST

Learning to program isn't something you can do in an afternoon, but it doesn't have to be a life's work, either. There are lots of things you can do to make it easier on yourself when you are learning to program. You already know about The 5 Most Common Problems New Programmers Face--And How You Can Solve Them. Now, discover how to get the most out of your learning.

The 5 Most Common Problems New Programmers Face--And How You Can Solve Them

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:12:00 EST

When you're just starting out with programming, it's easy to run into problems that make you wonder how anyone has ever managed to write a computer program. But the fact is, just about everyone else who's learned to code has had that experience and wondered the same thing, when they were starting out. I've helped teach several introductory programming classes, and there are some problems that trip up nearly every student--everything from getting started to dealing with program design. I'll prepare you to get past these challenges--none of them are insurmountable.

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Sun, 31 May 2009 21:43:00 EST

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5 Awesome (and time saving) Features of the Visual Studio Debugger

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:05:00 EST

So you know all the basic debugger features: breakpoints, stepping through the code, viewing the values of variables. But there's a lot more your debugger can do to make it quicker to step through code, easier to test alternate solutions, and even avoid rerunning the program. Here, you'll discover some of Visual Studio's more advanced debugger features, such as stepping out of a function, taking advantage of the autos window, using run to the cursor to set temporary breakpoints, modifying a variable's value to test potential fixes, and using Set Next Statement to turn back the clock and re-execute code.

Debugging with Visual Studio, Part 6: Remote Debugging

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:09:00 EST

Discover how to debug code running on a one machine from your main development box using remote debugging with Visual Studio

Debugging with Visual Studio, Part 5: Using Trace and Log Messages

Sun, 17 May 2009 21:48:00 EST

Part 5 in a series on debugging with Visual Studio. Discover how to use tracing and logging to make debugging easier.

Debugging C and C++ with Visual Studio 2005/2008, Part 4: Setting up Code for the Debugger

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:44:00 EST

Part 4 in a series on debugging C and C++ in Visual Studio

Debugging C++ Using Visual Studio 2005/2008, Part 3: Using Breakpoints Effectively

Tue, 05 May 2009 21:58:00 EST

Part 3 in a series on debugging with Visual Studio

Ask an Expert

Tue, 05 May 2009 21:56:00 EST

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Constructors and Destructors in C++

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:41:00 EST

Learn about the subtleties of constructors and destructors in C++

Debugging C and C++ with Visual Studio 2005/2008, Part 2: Setting up the IDE

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:28:00 EST

In this article series, we discuss the concepts of debugging with Visual Studio 2005/2008. Part one covered general debugging concepts; part two will explain how to configure the Visual Studio IDE for debugging.

Operator Overloading

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:53:00 EST

How and why to use (or avoid) operator overloading for cleaner, more readable code.

Debugging C and C++ with Visual Studio 2005/2008, Part 1: Overview of Debugging Concepts

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:57:00 EST

Whenever you write C++ programs, inevitably you're going to have to debug the program. This series of articles will discuss how to debug using Visual Studio, but first, we'll need to start out with an overview of important concepts used by debuggers.

Common Memory Management Problems in C++

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:40:00 EST

Part 4 in the dynamic memory management series: memory leaks and how to avoid them.

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Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:49:00 EST

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Dynamic Memory Allocation: Overloading Operator New and Operator Delete

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:00:00 EST

At times, you will have classes for which you want to specialize memory allocation. Why? You know something about how the class is used. For instance, you might specialize memory allocation for a class in order to to squeeze some extra performance out of your program.

Dynamic Memory Allocation: Virtual Memory

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:34:00 EST

Part 2 in a series on dynamic memory allocation and management

Advanced Memory Management: Dynamic Allocation, Part 1

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:10:00 EST

Part 1 in a series on dynamic memory allocation in C/C++.

Managing database operations using ADO and C++, Part 5: Using the CADOManager in practice

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:44:00 EST

To use the CADOManager class as a base class to an inherited management class we should adopt some convention to name these inherited classes. It can be anything really but it seems easy enough to come up with something like CTbl for clarity. For example, in our database schema we want to write a table class for the table called 'People' and that inherits from CADOManager...

Managing database operations using ADO and C++ Part 4: Creating the ADO manager class

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:56:00 EST

Now that we have gone over the basics and described a way to design and create ADO wrapper classes, it is now time for the final phase of creating an ADO manager class that will work on all the concepts we have discussed...

ADO Wrapper Classes

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:05:00 EST

Now that the basics are out of the way we can actually begin to design some useful code that will do something! We need an easy way to create, access and manage the ADO objects we have discussed. The term 'wrapper' is used in programming to describe a way to create code that manages some other API's or module. The terms 'encapsulation' or 'legacy management' can be used to describe what a class wrapper is...

Managing database operations using ADO and C++, Part 2: Introduction to ADO

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:05:00 EST

ADO consists of a series of objects that are used to manage interfacing to an SQL server. These objects need to be instantiated using a smart pointer and then set up correctly in order to perform database operations. Generally ADO is abstracted from the particular syntax issues of various SQL servers. It operates via a driver supplied by a specific SQL server provider. Each provider must supply the driver necessary for ADO to interface to the server properly and handle the various interfaces that ADO operates on. For instance, the MS-SQL server uses a driver called 'SQL Native Client'. In this way, with only a few exceptions, only one piece of code needs to be written in order to interface properly with various SQL servers...

Managing database operations using ADO and C++, Part 1: Introduction to SQL

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:00:10 EST

This series of articles will detail how to use Microsoft Active Data Objects (ADO) and C++ to manage database operations. Part 1 highlights in simple terms the basic SQL operations that the examples will perform and introduce the reader to some simple SQL syntax.

Solving the Diamond Problem with Virtual Inheritance

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:24:00 EST

Multiple inheritance in C++ is a powerful, but tricky tool, that often leads to problems if not used carefully. This article will teach you how to use virtual inheritance to solve some of these common problems programmers run into.

Multiple Inheritance in C++

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:41:00 EST

Deriving directly from more than one class is usually called multiple inheritance. Since it's widely believed that this concept complicates the design and debuggers can have a hard time with it, multiple inheritance can be a controversial topic. However, multiple inheritance is an important feature in C++ and C++ programmers think of it as a very good structuring tool.

Setting Up Code::Blocks and the MINGW Compiler on Windows

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:58:00 EST

This tutorial will provide you with detailed instructions for a standard installation of Code::Blocks and the MINGW compiler, a free development environment for C and C++.

Setting up the SDL libraries for Code::Blocks for a Windows Compiler

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:57:00 EST

This tutorial assumes that you have already set up Code::Blocks and the MINGW compiler in Windows. Now, we will add the SDL graphical libraries, which will enable you to write graphical applications...

What the $#@! is Parallelism, Anyhow?

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:02:00 EST

�m constantly amazed how many seemingly well-educated computer technologists bandy about the word parallelism without really knowing what they�re talking about. I can�t tell you how many articles and books I�ve read on parallel computing that use the term over and over without ever defining it....