Yesterday ... more to do in Weymouth. I'll probably be there again for the next two Sundays, and certainly not running out of things to see and do. The Rodwell Trail is the path of the old railway from Weymouth via Wyke Regis to Fortuneswell and Easton. Dominic, Sion and myself took the walk t ....
If I were to commute to Swindon for a day's work from Melksham, I would much prefer to travel by train from my home town of Melksham. It's kinder on the environment, and it's kinder on my blood pressure (I can relax on the train but should not relax at the wheel), and it's kinder to others on the ....
Our web site includes over 4000 (I couldn't believe that figure either when I looked it up) source code, configuration file and data file examples. And today, following an idea from a delegate on last weeks' C++ course, I have improved the display of them on Internet Explorer with a more friendly la ....
Overloading operators with methods is a great way of providing a shorthand using the operator syntax for common things you want to do with objects. In other words - it's much easier to write:
c = a + b
than
c = a.addition(b)
ans it's also much easier for the maintainanc ....
Someone said to me that there's nothing to do in Melksham. But I don't believe them - I don't share that experience. In fact, I could do with 48 hours in the day to do all the things that I wanted.
On Monday of this week, I was teaching a programming course (open to the public) - and I'm teaching ....
In C, function names need to be unique. If you try to compile or load two functions of the same name, even with a different number / type of parameters, you'll get an error rather than a runnable file out of your compile / load process. See [here].
In C++, you can have methods (functions) in each c ....
"I'm never going back there again" says Michael Winner about a restuarant that he's frequented for 40 years, but was disappointed with when he went there the other day - Daily Mail report, page 23, and Twitter. Hmmmm.
We use services of various sorts - restaurants, shops, banks, etc., in Melksham, ....
Once we've covered the fundamentals of programming on a C course, we move on to cover pointers, arrays, structures, strings, input/output, and dynamic memory allocation. We teach and illustrate each of them, and we have our delegates write practical exercises to make sure that they have a grasp of ....
I'm so glad I'm not a teacher - or at least a school teacher or University lecturer. For in these jobs, I feel that I would be spending far more of my time preparing my students to pass exams than I would spend preparing them for what life was going to bring them beyond the educational establishment ....
Almost every program you write, in any language, will have repeating code in it in the form of a loop. Programs without loops are limited to really simple "read a piece of data, calculate on it and print a result" tasks, and ever with them there will be loops within the function calls that you make ....