Questions tagged [beginner]
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How do I structure this file better?
Context: I'm a complete newbie trying to get good at structuring my code. I'm aware that I'm supposed to do my own research with docs, but I don't know what specific docs I should be reading for this ...
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Compare two files in 16-bit DOS assembly
The task is to do a byte-by-byte comparison and print whether the files are equal or not. Code: ...
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Command-line Tool That Reads a Text File and Calculates Basic Statistics
TLDR: First time dev in Go moving from Java and I need feedback on my simple CLI Tool. I wanted to get competent in Go as a very junior developer, so this is my first basic project in go. I set a goal ...
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Function which returns arithmetic expression based on an operator
For the following code, I have trouble improving it. I need to write a function getExpression(level, operator) which has one integer parameter representing a level ...
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IBM File Processing and PDF Conversion App Using PyQt6 and FPDF
I am trying to convert a 111MB TEXT file to PDF quickly. I'm currently using the FPDF library, and large files take about 40 minutes to process. The text file is an IBM carriage control (ANSI) file ...
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Evaluating an expression with shunting yard algorithm
I'm learning Scala and wrote a simple infix expression evaluator using the shunting yard algorithm. As opposed to the wikipedia example, this implementation evaluates the expression in place instead ...
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Blackjack game for assignment
I’m a first-year IT student, and I’ve completed a working Blackjack game in Python as part of an assignment. I’d love to get some feedback on my code structure, readability, and comments to improve my ...
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Filter non-even elements from an array
I have a method that returns an int[]. The array is made by filtering out only the even values of the array passed into the method. It works, but it's really ugly ...
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Project of chrono, countdown, interval timer and custom timer
I created a project with visual studio, in V language. Since I am a beginner, I would like to improve the code by making it lighter and less repetitive, and more performing, and suitable to be run ...
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I2C serial communication protocol for university project
For now, I have only implemented a simple I2C protocol where only the master transmits the data. Also there is ack_bit for the I2C Address only. For state 5, i.e.,...
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Default methods for embedded structs
I am learning Go by working through programming puzzles. There is shared boilerplate between puzzles that I want to factor out into into some kind of helper structure: Read the input (always the same,...
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"Weird Algorithm" (Collatz) from CSES Problem Set
I had to solve the following problem: Consider an algorithm that takes as input a positive integer n. If n is even, the algorithm divides it by two, and if n is odd, the algorithm multiplies it by ...
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Basic Terminal Calculator in C++
I'm a freshman Computer Science major looking to build projects for my portfolio. I'm new to C++ and programming in general. Is there any way I can improve this basic calculator I've made? Also, what ...
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Advent of Code 2015 "Not Quite Lisp", in Common Lisp (Part 2)
I asked for feedback on part 1 of this Advent of Code challenge: Advent of Code 2015 "Not Quite Lisp", in Common Lisp I have read everyone's feedback and done a lot of further reading. I ...
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C# string forming ballots
I'm a junior developer currently working on a C# project. There is a lot more for me to learn so here I am looking for some advice on my code snippet. I have a function that executes a number of ...
