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How to have two different programs with two different languages interact?
I don't know if this is too broad or not, but I am a youngish programmer still in college, its my Junior year. I feel like I have a pretty good grasps for different languages and have a pretty good ...
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How to solve the problem of nested comments
It appears in not just one language that comments can't be nested. Do you have a good solution for this problem? One workaround in C/C++ and Java is to only use the single-line comment but it becomes ...
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Learning to program in C (coming from Python) [closed]
If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please let me know.
I'm a Python programmer by occupation. I would love to learn C. Indeed, I have tried many times, but I always get discouraged. In ...
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Why do some programmers categorize C, Python, C++ differently? - regarding level
I am taking an introductory course on python and the instructor says that python is a high level language and C and C++ are low level languages. It's just confusing. I thought that C, C++, Python, ...
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Preferring Python over C for Algorithmic Programming
I've been studying a bit of algorithms and have been looking at sites like SPOJ.pl TopCoder etc. I've seen that programmers prefer C or C++ usually for most algorithmic programming contests.
Now I'...
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Why should we use low level languages if a high level one like python can do almost everything? [closed]
I know python is not suitable for things like microcontrolers, make drivers etc, but besides that, you can do everything using python, companys get stuck with speed optimizations for real hard time ...
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Writing functional tests for a legacy project
I am trying to add a couple of tests to a legacy C project. The project basically consists of a command line tool that prints something to stdout every time an event happens. Now, since writing unit ...
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When the stack frames become computationally expensive
I've been experimenting with different data structures and algorithms in Python, Java and C to see in what circumstances function/method inlining could bring meaningful gains in terms of the execution ...
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What should I learn after Python? [closed]
I am 12 years old and have mastered the basics of Python with Learn Python The Hard Way by Zed Shaw (I think) and it has done me well. What should I do next? Do you have any recommended books or good ...
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Designing for an algorithm that reports progress
I have an iterative algorithm and I want to print the progress. However, I may also want it not to print any information, or to print it in a different way, or do other logic. In an object oriented ...
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How to familiarize myself with Python [closed]
I'm a Python beginner. I started programming with Python 1.5 months back.
I downloaded the Python docs and read some parts of the tutorial. I have been programming on codechef.com and solving ...
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Managing error code and error message mapping
As part of a game engine I am writing in cython, one of the challenges I am facing is creating a consistent interface for error handling that works at the C and python levels of my code. I am ...
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Will Python developers find it easier to learn C (and vice versa)? [duplicate]
Since Python was written in the C programming language, does it mean that if I know C I will learn and master Python faster than it would take me to learn it without prior knowledge of C?
Or will ...
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C vs C++ for a Java (and possibly python) Programmer [closed]
I am a Hobbyist Java programmer and I would like to further my programming skills by learning C or C++ and Python.
I have read many C vs C++ articles but none of them contain the information I'm ...
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Is C usually a last resort?
I've been learning C recently.
I've completed a number of coding challenges on websites like codewars in C, and I always find myself wishing I had something like Python's flexible data structures. In ...
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