University professors will try to drive the point into your head all semester: NULL and zero are not the same thing! But yet, you’ve looked into memory, you’ve examined the code. That thing they call NULL sure does look like a zero! What’s the big difference?
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True is a logical condition. It’s often written TRUE just to confuse it with “true” which is a word that has other implications. But for programming, TRUE generally means success. It’s the opposite of FALSE, which generally means failure.
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The most basic and perhaps ancient of programming techniques is the loop. And the most basic loop is the for loop. It’s also pretty flexible.
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Long, long ago, I was an ardent assembly language programmer. I admired coding in assembly because the programs were small and fast. On the early microcomputers, that was a plus.
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The game of Tic-Tac-Toe is played on a simple 3-by-3 grid, what C programmers would call a matrix. It’s not The Matrix, of course, but it’s a simple array in which players can battle.
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Sure, your programs can accept values from the input stream, but most of the time numeric input comes in the form of text. The issue then becomes how to transform the string “1234” into the value 1234.
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Here’s a brain puzzle for you: Write a function that accepts a numeric array and returns the high and low values from that array. Can it be done?
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01010011011000010111100100100000010010010111010000100000
01101001011011100010000001000010011010010110111001100001
011100100111100100001010
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The C language library features a few rounding functions, but most of them deal with trimming floating point values down (or up) to integers. The other day I encountered an interesting problem: How to round a value up or down to the nearest value of 5.
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For your June exercise, you need to concoct code that properly generates an ordinal number. Write a function that returns a string “st” “nd” “rd” or “th” that’s tacked on to any integer value from 1 through what-have-you.
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