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Simple data structures

Structure data types are useful way to package related data and have them behave like a single variable. Declaring a simple struct that holds two int members: struct point { int x; int y; }; x and y are called the members (or fields) of point struct. Defining and using structs: ...

C Language • Structs

Inject, reduce

Inject and reduce are different names for the same thing. In other languages these functions are often called folds (like foldl or foldr). These methods are available on every Enumerable object. Inject takes a two argument function and applies that to all of the pairs of elements in the Array. For...

Ruby Language • Arrays

Basic Discriminated Union Usage

Discriminated unions in F# offer a a way to define types which may hold any number of different data types. Their functionality is similar to C++ unions or VB variants, but with the additional benefit of being type safe. // define a discriminated union that can hold either a float or a string type...

F# • Discriminated Unions

Advanced complex arithmetic

The module cmath includes additional functions to use complex numbers. import cmath This module can calculate the phase of a complex number, in radians: z = 2+3j # A complex number cmath.phase(z) # 0.982793723247329 It allows the conversion between the cartesian (rectangular) and polar repr...

Python Language • Complex math

Reducing the Capacity of a Vector

A std::vector automatically increases its capacity upon insertion as needed, but it never reduces its capacity after element removal. // Initialize a vector with 100 elements std::vector<int> v(100); // The vector's capacity is always at least as large as its size auto const old_capacity...

C++ • std::vector

Getting Started: Hello world!

Creating an HTML document and enabling knockout.js Create an HTML file and include knockout.js via a <script> tag. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Hello world! (knockout.js)</title> </head> <body> <script src="https://cdnjs...

knockout.js • Getting started with knockout.js

Extension methods aren't supported by dynamic code.

static class Program { static void Main() { dynamic dynamicObject = new ExpandoObject(); string awesomeString = "Awesome"; // Prints True Console.WriteLine(awesomeString.IsThisAwesome()); dynamicObject.StringValue = awesomeStrin...

C# Language • Extension Methods

Closing a serial port even if lost, deleted or overwritten

Assuming you created the serial port object s as in this example, then to close it fclose(s) However, sometimes you can accidentally lose the port (e.g. clear, overwrite, change scope, etc...), and fclose(s) will no longer work. The solution is easy fclose(instrfindall) More info at instrfin...

MATLAB Language • Using serial ports

Selecting specified number of records

The SQL 2008 standard defines the FETCH FIRST clause to limit the number of records returned. SELECT Id, ProductName, UnitPrice, Package FROM Product ORDER BY UnitPrice DESC FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY This standard is only supported in recent versions of some RDMSs. Vendor-specific non-stand...

SQL • SELECT

Empty message is not printed

When NSLog is asked to print empty string, it omits the log completely. NSString *name = @""; NSLog(@"%@", name); // Resolves to @"" The above code will print nothing. It is a good practice to prefix logs with labels: NSString *name = @""; NSLog(@&quo...

Objective-C Language • Logging

Embedding external SVG files in HTML

You can use the <img> or <object> elements to embed external SVG elements. Setting the height and width is optional but is highly recommended. Using the image element <img src="attention.svg" width="50" height="50"> Using <img> does not allo...

HTML • SVG

Embedding SVG using CSS

You can add external SVG files using the background-image property, just as you would do with any other image. HTML: <div class="attention"></div> CSS: .attention { background-image: url(attention.svg); background-size: 100% 100%; width: 50px; height: ...

HTML • SVG

Block Typedefs

typedef double (^Operation)(double first, double second); If you declare a block type as a typedef, you can then use the new type name instead of the full description of the arguments and return values. This defines Operation as a block that takes two doubles and returns a double. The type can b...

Objective-C Language • Blocks

Procedure Names

Procedures do something. Name them after what they're doing, using a verb. If accurately naming a procedure is not possible, likely the procedure is doing too many things and needs to be broken down into smaller, more specialized procedures. Some common VBA naming conventions go thus: For all Pr...

VBA • Naming Conventions

Statically Initialized Singleton

public class Singleton { private readonly static Singleton instance = new Singleton(); private Singleton() { } public static Singleton Instance => instance; } This implementation is thread-safe because in this case instance object is initialized in the static constructor. The ...

C# Language • Singleton Implementation

Lazy, thread-safe Singleton (using Double Checked Locking)

This thread-safe version of a singleton was necessary in the early versions of .NET where static initialization was not guaranteed to be thread-safe. In more modern versions of the framework a statically initialized singleton is usually preferred because it is very easy to make implementation mistak...

C# Language • Singleton Implementation

List all contributions grouped by author name

git shortlog summarizes git log and groups by author If no parameters are given, a list of all commits made per committer will be shown in chronological order. $ git shortlog Committer 1 (<number_of_commits>): Commit Message 1 Commit Message 2 ... Committer 2 (<number_of_...

Git • Browsing the history

Loop control with break, next, and redo

The flow of execution of a Ruby block may be controlled with the break, next, and redo statements. break The break statement will exit the block immediately. Any remaining instructions in the block will be skipped, and the iteration will end: actions = %w(run jump swim exit macarena) index = 0 ...

Ruby Language • Control Flow

Underlying references of named method delegates

When assigning named methods to delegates, they will refer to the same underlying object if: They are the same instance method, on the same instance of a class They are the same static method on a class public class Greeter { public void WriteInstance() { Console.Write...

C# Language • Delegates

The Func, Action and Predicate delegate types

The System namespace contains Func<..., TResult> delegate types with between 0 and 15 generic parameters, returning type TResult. private void UseFunc(Func<string> func) { string output = func(); // Func with a single generic type parameter returns that type Console.WriteLine...

C# Language • Delegates