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Minor changes and bugfixes

Parentheses are now forbidden around named parameters. The following compiles in C#5, but not C#6 5.0 Console.WriteLine((value: 23)); Operands of is and as are no longer allowed to be method groups. The following compiles in C#5, but not C#6 5.0 var result = "".Any is byte; T...

C# Language • C# 6.0 Features

Usefulness of interfaces

Interfaces can be extremely helpful in many cases. For example, say you had a list of animals and you wanted to loop through the list, each printing the sound they make. {cat, dog, bird} One way to do this would be to use interfaces. This would allow for the same method to be called on all of th...

Java Language • Interfaces

Deserialization using System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer

The JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize<T>(input) method attempts to deserialize a string of valid JSON into an object of the specified type <T>, using the default mappings natively supported by JavaScriptSerializer. using System.Collections; using System.Web.Script.Serialization; // ....

.NET Framework • JSON Serialization

Deserialization using Json.NET

internal class Sequence{ public string Name; public List<int> Numbers; } // ... string rawJSON = "{\"Name\":\"Fibonacci Sequence\",\"Numbers\":[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]}"; Sequence sequence = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Seque...

.NET Framework • JSON Serialization

Run code only if there is a value present

Optional<String> optionalWithValue = Optional.of("foo"); optionalWithValue.ifPresent(System.out::println);//Prints "foo". Optional<String> emptyOptional = Optional.empty(); emptyOptional.ifPresent(System.out::println);//Does nothing.

Java Language • Optional

Functions as a variable

A normal function declaration looks like this: function foo(){ } A function defined like this is accessible from anywhere within its context by its name. But sometimes it can be useful to treat function references like object references. For example, you can assign an object to a variable based...

JavaScript • Functions

Standard array initialization

There are many ways to create arrays. The most common are to use array literals, or the Array constructor: var arr = [1, 2, 3, 4]; var arr2 = new Array(1, 2, 3, 4); If the Array constructor is used with no arguments, an empty array is created. var arr3 = new Array(); results in: [] Note...

JavaScript • Arrays

Array spread / rest

Spread operator 6 With ES6, you can use spreads to separate individual elements into a comma-separated syntax: let arr = [1, 2, 3, ...[4, 5, 6]]; // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] // in ES < 6, the operations above are equivalent to arr = [1, 2, 3]; arr.push(4, 5, 6); The spread operator also act...

JavaScript • Arrays

Introduction

In JavaScript, functions may be anonymously defined using the "arrow" (=>) syntax, which is sometimes referred to as a lambda expression due to Common Lisp similarities. The simplest form of an arrow function has its arguments on the left side of => and the return value on the right...

JavaScript • Arrow Functions

HTML output from web server

PHP can be used to add content to HTML files. While HTML is processed directly by a web browser, PHP scripts are executed by a web server and the resulting HTML is sent to the browser. The following HTML markup contains a PHP statement that will add Hello World! to the output: <!DOCTYPE html&gt...

PHP • Getting started with PHP

Standard function prototype

Start by defining a Foo function that we'll use as a constructor. function Foo (){} By editing Foo.prototype, we can define properties and methods that will be shared by all instances of Foo. Foo.prototype.bar = function() { return 'I am bar'; }; We can then create an instance using the ...

JavaScript • Inheritance

Using GET and no parameters

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhttp.onreadystatechange = function () { if (xhttp.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE && xhttp.status === 200) { //parse the response in xhttp.responseText; } }; xhttp.open("GET", "ajax_info.txt", true); xhttp.send(...

JavaScript • AJAX

Getting Started

Python is a widely used high-level programming language for general-purpose programming, created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management and supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, f...

Python Language • Getting started with Python Language

echo and print

echo and print are language constructs, not functions. This means that they don't require parentheses around the argument like a function does (although one can always add parentheses around almost any PHP expression and thus echo("test") won't do any harm either). They output the string r...

PHP • Outputting the Value of a Variable

Difference between Object.key and Object.prototype.key

Unlike in languages like Python, static properties of the constructor function are not inherited to instances. Instances only inherit from their prototype, which inherits from the parent type's prototype. Static properties are never inherited. function Foo() {}; Foo.style = 'bold'; var foo = ne...

JavaScript • Inheritance

List Comprehensions

A list comprehension creates a new list by applying an expression to each element of an iterable. The most basic form is: [ <expression> for <element> in <iterable> ] There's also an optional 'if' condition: [ <expression> for <element> in <iterable> if <c...

Python Language • List comprehensions

Dictionary Comprehensions

A dictionary comprehension is similar to a list comprehension except that it produces a dictionary object instead of a list. A basic example: Python 2.x2.7 {x: x * x for x in (1, 2, 3, 4)} # Out: {1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 9, 4: 16} which is just another way of writing: dict((x, x * x) for x in (1, 2...

Python Language • List comprehensions

Generator Expressions

Generator expressions are very similar to list comprehensions. The main difference is that it does not create a full set of results at once; it creates a generator object which can then be iterated over. For instance, see the difference in the following code: # list comprehension [x**2 for x in r...

Python Language • List comprehensions

Class Constructor

The fundamental part of most classes is its constructor, which sets up each instance's initial state and handles any parameters that were passed when calling new. It's defined in a class block as though you're defining a method named constructor, though it's actually handled as a special case. cla...

JavaScript • Classes

Set Comprehensions

Set comprehension is similar to list and dictionary comprehension, but it produces a set, which is an unordered collection of unique elements. Python 2.x2.7 # A set containing every value in range(5): {x for x in range(5)} # Out: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4} # A set of even numbers between 1 and 10: {x f...

Python Language • List comprehensions