Hi All, I have had thoughts of trying to write a simple crawler that might crawl and produce a list of its findings for our NPO's websites and content. Does anybody have any thoughts on how to do this? Where do you point the crawler to get started? How does it send back its findings and still keep crawling? How does it know what it fin...
I'm 16. I run Linux, love to program, (and love to play tennis!). I picked up a copy of K&R and am currently learning about pointers (chapter 5). Conceptually, it's pretty easy for me. The scope of what a programmer must(?) known seems incredibly daunting. If I want to persue this as a career, what should I be learning? Any insight ...
so i have been programming for about a year, and i think i have progressed relatively quickly. I am just finishing up a pretty decent mario clone with XNA, and know a number of languages to the point where i could code effectively in any of them. the thing is i dont know what i should do next. Game programming is fun, but i cant draw ...
I am a software developer with over 6+ years of experience in Microsoft technologies (VB.NET, C#, SQL). The company I work for gives us a yearly education budget to spend on classes/seminars/books/etc to help advance our career. I really don't want to take a class on "coding", I would much rather take someone on a different topic that ...
As a junior programmer I think it may be beneficial to learn solid database design. What books would you recommend on learning database design? Just to be clear, the specific aspect of design I am referring to is creating a collection of tables and their relationships. Note: The programming books I have enjoyed reading (gaged by teachin...
Hello. It's common to read a book to learn some programming language. But, I think we need to learn the skill of learning before doing so. What I'm talking about is that I need your help to make the learning process effective. To give an example, I'm reading chapter 12 in C++ Primer Plus. And I started to forget some details from the pre...
I want to learn, at least at a basic level, how to build java web applications (coming from a .net background). Meaning, I would like to be able to build, deploy a simple cms type application from the ground up. What exactly do I need to learn? Tomcat seems to be a good web server for Java. What options are there for the web? I kn...
My goal is to make web applications! I finished reading the Books "Headfirst - Java" and "Headfirst - Servlets and JSP". Because this topic (web applications) is so big and complicated, I would like to ask what I should learn next. I feel overstrained when I read catchwords like Java EE, EJB, JSF, JPA, Glassfish ... but I won't give up...
I think small exercises would be the best way for me to learn programming. I am a beginner and I am willing to give plenty of time to this. In my opinion, exercises should be something to write, and not long programs (10-30 lines). What websites/articles/exercises can you recommend? ...
I've narrowed down my learning resources to the following: SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform (APress) Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (WROX) AppDev Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Developers Vol 1 Would you recommend getting one of those books or video training before knowing C# in depth? I'd like to get up to speed wi...
I have the opportunity for a new job in which I'd be moving from PHP to JSP. I've done a little java in the past but am just wondering if I should revise my java knowledge before attempting to learn JSP? ...
Hey Guys, My 12 year old brother has recently expressed an interest in learning to program. I of course think this is a great idea, why not start him early? I'm wondering what you guys think with regards a book? I was thinking I should start him off on Java but I'm unsure what book would be best? Any suggestions with regards a book or e...
I just noticed that I have a very old copy of Intro to Algorithms (1st ed.) in my bookshelf that I haven't opened yet. Seeing that now, it's already in the 3rd edition, I would like to know if it's still relevant or would it be best if I get myself the latest 3rd edition instead for learning algorithms. I've been really wanting to beco...
I guess I'm a very experienced .Net developer for more than 5 years. I also have experiences on java and even written applications with Borland C++ Builder and also done iPhone apps. Now, I am in a situation that I need to rewrite a .net cf app for a wince device which doesn't have .net framework. So, basically, I need to learn Visual C+...
Possible Duplicate: Which C# 4.0 Book would you purchase, and why? What C# book would you recommend to a complete newbie to the C series of languages? Is Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) the best option and is this the most recent/relevent edition? ...
I'm having a difficult time retaining the programming skills I'm actively trying to learn in an effort to apply for a junior developer position. What I'm finding is that I can easily master isolated topics (for example, details about how Java's Container classes work and the different ways to sort a given container), but I find that whe...
AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript And XML What does it include ? html, javascript, XML, jQuery ........... What is the way to start learning AJAX ? Is it basic from html & javaScript ? or on the basis of the language platform ? ...
I was always fascinated by the topic of Machine learning until I decided to teach myself how to do it. So I came through a course provided by Stanford published online. However I was shocked of the amount of math it contained. So what is the mathematical background I should have to be able to understand the algorithms of machine learning...
At the moment I know of Python, C and Java. I'd say my knowledge of Python is intermediate, I have written a web-bot that functions reasonably well (my old 'large' program to date) and I've been using the language for about 2 months. I have solved the first 20 or so project euler problems using Python aswell. The only thing I'm not comfo...
I recently came into some blogs saying that Linq to Sql is dead. and a few days ago I saw a discussion with some people saying that Silverlight maybe will take ASP.net place! ...I don't want to ask if they are true or not but it is so annoying when you wake up and found your languages and informations in the casket! (I think that Micros...