Maybe NASA scientist does but non-existent pages don't. I got this: Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
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Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Here's an activity selection algorithmm coded in C# - probably not what you want. :) But you have not explained what you want.
static void Main(string\[\] args)
{
Random rndGen = new Random();
var activities = new List() { "bake bread", "mow lawn", "read book", "sleep", "don batman costume", "sneeze",
"have a beer", "code furiously", "make excuse for late assignment", "plead for help"};
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
int act = rndGen.Next(activities.Count);
Console.WriteLine((i+1).ToString() + ". " + activities\[act\]);
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Out patients' or Out patient's or any of your variants with an apostrophe. :-D
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
I wonder if Tarsky or Kripke would agree. In any case it's also the case that Lies are Lies no matter how old you are. In fact it's generally true that 'X' is 'X' no matter how old you are for all values of 'X'. :-D
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Perhaps he's a Peter Drucker guru: “I have been saying for many years,” Drucker once remarked, “that we are using the word ‘guru’ only because ‘charlatan’ is too long to fit into a headline.”
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
gamemaker825 wrote:
just tell me what you would like on a program and what language you want me to use.
I'd like a program that generates next week's winning lottery numbers for UK lottery - must guarantee they are winning. You can choose between a Lisp or APL implementation. :-D
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Try here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/6fb159cb-b195-409b-b8ad-702e457b0692[^] :-D
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Don't know if it's faster but I'd use the Exists() method to see if it was already there rather than loop through UniqueList. :) I'm sure there's also a neat way to do this using LINQ. :-D
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
It was (probably) the cheapest beer Newcastle Breweries produced. As a lad, most of my mates drank it while I drank Ex. I had one pint in a pub in Felling when Mungo Jerry were in the top 10 with In The Summertime. It was disgusting.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Or someone who drinks pints of Newcastle Scotch - about the foulest beer I can ever recall drinking.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Long time since I used Access so this may not apply. When backups were done we always did a compact of the database (it's a menu choice IIRC). In a similar situation to what you describe never had any real problems with Access in 5 years or so. The front end was VB6 and the back end was just tables and queries on the server. So may be something in your set up you can tweak. However, I'd support the suggestion of looking at SQL Server Express. I've had a little experience with MySQL (on Linux) and found no problems with it. So I would not rule it out completely. I think however that SSE is probably a better bet. There are others like SQLite around(though I don't think that's appropriate for what you describe) so may be worth investigating.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
It's Schroedinger - I think someone just gave him a wave.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Notepad++ is very good. Shows tabs, spaces, does column deletes and highlights matching brackets, braces, parens etc. Also has modes for different languages C#, C++, VB, Lisp etc. And it's free. :)
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
I think the problem is when the two are mixed in the same line. Then it does not seem to matter how you set them lines don't align. :) I also worked on a VMS system where the default was to use tabs - but it had stops at every 8 columns and if you set yours differently it was a mess.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Using Interop you should be able to do this. That assumes you know how to create databases, tables etc using Access objects. You might be able to do it running SQL queries in Access - again assuming you know the required SQL. You can pick up some of it in the Access designer for queries - just create a make table one then switch to SQL view.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
It's relatively straight forward to write an app that displays questions, accepts answers and marks them. It's also pretty straight forward to write an app that accepts a question, answer choices and which one is correct then saves them (so first app can read them). How you do this depends on the first app. This type of app is often set as an assignment for students so I guess there's a lot of them about. The hard part comes if you have to validate the test. There's a whole bunch of statistical analysis to do to filter out bad question/answer combinations. The last time I did this was in COBOL some 20 years ago and it was a pain.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Here's my original post: (the add 10 is redundant - me being silly)
Generate a four digit random number,
multiply it by 10,
add 5 (or 10).
The result will be divisible by 5.
The adding 5 could be done at random. The Random class in C# allows you to get next integer in a range e.g. x = Random.Next(0, 10000) gets you a number on range 0 to 9999 (the second parameter is the exclusive upper limit). So no need to mess about multiplying by 100k. He could use Random.Next(1000, 10000) if he actually requires, or just use String formatting if it's just to be displayed.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
See my correction - you don't need to add 10 at all (you can add 5 without fear). That was a silly on my part. :)
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.
Did you read the bit that says generate a four digit number? That won't generate an overflow. :) The OP wanted 5 digit numbers.
Regards David R --------------------------------------------------------------- "Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble." - Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.