In Perl, you don't have multidimensional structures as such - you have list and hashes ... and you can have lists of hashes, hashes of lists and hashed of hases too. Which give you almost all of the benefits of multi dimensional structures, but with few of the limitations. And they can be set up i ....
I've just been reviewing hotel bookings for the next 20 nights, and we're booked to 58% of capacity. 4 nights, including tonight and this Friday are completely full; 2 nights, both further ahead, are yet to take their first booking.
Am I happy with these figures? Yes - very much so. We've got ho ....
The long awaited Cambridge Guided Busway opened on 7th August, and a training course I'm giving nearby brought me close to its northern section yesterday.
Although I may have questioned the choice of a guided busway over other options along the corridor, and worried about the delays and budget over ....
Your Last chance this summer - day trip by through train from Swindon, Chippenham and Melksham to Weymouth. Sunday, 28th August - from Swindon at 08:20, from Chippenham at 08:35, from Melksham at 08:45 and from Trowbridge at 08:55. Swindon to Weymouth day return fare just £15.60! Arrives i ....
The chap next to me in the north hide at Radipole Lake had this most huge zoom lens, I had my compact camera. So please excuse me presenting you with a picture with a spec in the middle and saying "that's a Kingfisher" Actually, when I zoom in, I found that you can make out that it's a Kingfisher ....
The Well House Consultants public course training schedule is now online and bookable until the end of December 2012.
We'll continue to run our successful Open Source Programming Courses at our Melksham, Wiltshire, England training centre right through next year. In each of the programming langua ....
"When do I use a $, when do I use an @, and when do I use a % ?" That is a frequently asked question on a Perl course, where a delegate had dabbled with a bit of Perl ahead of time.
You use @ if you're referring to the whole of a list - in other words a complete collection. If you're a chemist, yo ....
Money's useful stuff.
Before money, transactions were undertake on a barter system; if I wanted a loaf of bread I might exchange it for a fish. If I was wanting to book passage on tthe stagecoach from the George in Melksham to London, I would have to take ia bushel of apples into my local travel ....
Sometimes, examples written during a course are throw-aways ... but at other times they become a useful addition to our resources. On a private private Perl course that I was running yesterday, and continues today and Monday, I found myself writing a useful piece that shows examples of lots of ways ....
All the languages that we teach have a for loop or the equivalent, which is a clean way of repeating a block of code with a rising or falling index number. It's used in many circumstances - for example in iterating through the months of the year (for m goes from 1 to 12) of in stepping through all ....