Okay, maybe my C++ is getting rusty, but I’m stammering at coming up with a reasonable solution to this problem: Imagine a class, like this one: class Foo { public: Foo(string &name) : name_(name.c_str()) { } private: char *name_; } As you can see, it takes the guts of the string argument passed to the [...]
Continue Reading →When I’m programming, I usually anthroporporphize the code and the actors involved, and that means when I’m thinking about program flow, I think of it as if they’re real actors doing the tasks needed, and then I convert that back into code. But, when reading other people’s code, I often times find it hard to [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve always been fascinated by the denominations of money, and specifically, which coin values different countries use. Here in the US, we use the set of values {1,5,10,25}, and I’ve often wondered whether this is the best set of values. The question is: How do you figure out what ‘best’ is? Previously, I wrote a [...]
Continue Reading →No, there is not a space after the *. Take a look at this example: value = *pointer; Note how there’s not a space after the asterisk. Also note how the type of “value” and the type of “*pointer” are the same. Thus, when you declare these variables, you should do it like this: Type [...]
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