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Accessing instance variables with getters and setters

We have three methods: attr_reader: used to allow reading the variable outside the class. attr_writer: used to allow modifying the variable outside the class. attr_accessor: combines both methods. class Cat attr_reader :age # you can read the age but you can never change it attr_writer...

Ruby Language • Classes

Getting the full contents of a file

The preferred method of file i/o is to use the with keyword. This will ensure the file handle is closed once the reading or writing has been completed. with open('myfile.txt') as in_file: content = in_file.read() print(content) or, to handle closing the file manually, you can forgo with...

Python Language • Files & Folders I/O

Get a user's latitude and longitude

if (navigator.geolocation) { navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(geolocationSuccess, geolocationFailure); } else { console.log("Geolocation is not supported by this browser."); } // Function that will be called if the query succeeds var geolocationSuccess = function(pos) {...

JavaScript • Geolocation

Copying contents of one file to a different file

with open(input_file, 'r') as in_file, open(output_file, 'w') as out_file: for line in in_file: out_file.write(line) Using the shutil module: import shutil shutil.copyfile(src, dst)

Python Language • Files & Folders I/O

Adding and Setting Cookies

The following variables set up the below example: var COOKIE_NAME = "Example Cookie"; /* The cookie's name. */ var COOKIE_VALUE = "Hello, world!"; /* The cookie's value. */ var COOKIE_PATH = "/foo/bar"; /* The cookie's path. */ var COOKIE_EXPIRES; ...

JavaScript • Cookies

Retrieving data from a file

The following snippet opens a JSON encoded file (replace filename with the actual name of the file) and returns the object that is stored in the file. import json with open(filename, 'r') as f: d = json.load(f)

Python Language • JSON Module

Simple Table

<table> <tr> <th>Heading 1/Column 1</th> <th>Heading 2/Column 2</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Row 1 Data Column 1</td> <td>Row 1 Data Column 2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Row 2 Data Column...

HTML • Tables

Trigonometry

Calculating the length of the hypotenuse math.hypot(2, 4) # Just a shorthand for SquareRoot(2**2 + 4**2) # Out: 4.47213595499958 Converting degrees to/from radians All math functions expect radians so you need to convert degrees to radians: math.radians(45) # Convert 45 degrees t...

Python Language • Math Module

Basic Metaclasses

When type is called with three arguments it behaves as the (meta)class it is, and creates a new instance, ie. it produces a new class/type. Dummy = type('OtherDummy', (), dict(x=1)) Dummy.__class__ # <type 'type'> Dummy().__class__.__class__ # <type 'type'> It is po...

Python Language • Metaclasses

Useful Methods

Determine whether an array is empty or return its size var exampleArray = [1,2,3,4,5] exampleArray.isEmpty //false exampleArray.count //5 Reverse an Array Note: The result is not performed on the array the method is called on and must be put into its own variable. exampleArray = exampleArray...

Swift Language • Arrays

Basic PDO Connection and Retrieval

Since PHP 5.0, PDO has been available as a database access layer. It is database agnostic, and so the following connection example code should work for any of its supported databases simply by changing the DSN. // First, create the database handle //Using MySQL (connection via local socket): $d...

PHP • PDO

Setting Default Values

By default, attempting to lookup the value for a key which does not exist will return nil. You can optionally specify some other value to return (or an action to take) when the hash is accessed with a non-existent key. Although this is referred to as "the default value", it need not be a s...

Ruby Language • Hashes

External Stylesheet

An external CSS stylesheet can be applied to any number of HTML documents by placing a <link> element in each HTML document. The attribute rel of the <link> tag has to be set to "stylesheet", and the href attribute to the relative or absolute path to the stylesheet. While usin...

CSS • Getting started with CSS

Get Started

Download Xcode from the Mac App Store. Click to create a new project or playground:

Xcode • Getting started with Xcode

Getting Started

Create a new HTML file and paste the following content: <!DOCTYPE html> <html ng-app> <head> <title>Hello, Angular</title> <script src="https://code.angularjs.org/1.5.8/angular.min.js"></script> </head> <body ng-init="name=...

AngularJS • Getting started with AngularJS

Getting Started

Creating a database in MySQL CREATE DATABASE mydb; Return value: Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec) Using the created database mydb USE mydb; Return value: Database Changed Creating a table in MySQL CREATE TABLE mytable ( id int unsigned NOT NULL auto_increme...

MySQL • Getting started with MySQL

Get the current time and date

Use new Date() to generate a new Date object containing the current date and time. Note that Date() called without arguments is equivalent to new Date(Date.now()). Once you have a date object, you can apply any of the several available methods to extract its properties (e.g. getFullYear() to get t...

JavaScript • Date

Magic/Dunder Methods

Magic (also called dunder as an abbreviation for double-underscore) methods in Python serve a similar purpose to operator overloading in other languages. They allow a class to define its behavior when it is used as an operand in unary or binary operator expressions. They also serve as implementation...

Python Language • Overloading

Container and sequence types

It is possible to emulate container types, which support accessing values by key or index. Consider this naive implementation of a sparse list, which stores only its non-zero elements to conserve memory. class sparselist(object): def __init__(self, size): self.size = size se...

Python Language • Overloading

Callable types

class adder(object): def __init__(self, first): self.first = first # a(...) def __call__(self, second): return self.first + second add2 = adder(2) add2(1) # 3 add2(2) # 4

Python Language • Overloading