Recent content by phpGuy

VB is real world applicable, just not for software development. For accountants it could save them a lot of time if they wrote reusable macro for excel. I have never actually done this but, I am a TA for an intro CS class at my school and the business school requires accountants to take VB...

I agree with the fact that once you know one you know the rest. I was the original person that said that. That is how this argument started. I will agree that their are some optimizations that are not the same for every language that can make a huge difference. For instance, if you are using...

If you are applying for a job the requires a specific language then yes you should spend some of your spare time learning the ins and outs of it. I never said you shouldn't I just said that is not what a computer science program should teach. Optimization is learned over time and changes when...

Why do you say Computer Science college programs fail? You do realize that Computer Science isn't the study of programming don't you? Computer Science is the study of algorithm design and computer architectures. How does this fail in the eyes of learning how to program over learning language...

quarters = cents/25 theRest = cents%25 doesn't work for every iteration. if the user inputs 55 cents it works for 2 quarters but how do you account for only one quarter?

Give me a problem and I will program it for you in any language that has freely available documentation. I don't have a single languages syntax completely memorized because that is a waste of space in my mind. Even if you have language completely memorized if you don't know how it is...

for the record make sure in each case include the zero case. and kmote, I don't think mod would work in this case. It should actually be the floor( cents / 25 )...I am not sure of how java handles integer division. But back to mod...if cents is 50 then then 50 mod 25 = 0. Doesn't really tell...

php has some image manipulation packages. You can create dynamic images which sounds like what you want to do.

IMO you should learn algorithm design then the rest is just syntax. But then again I am computer scientist not a programmer.

here this is a general algorithm that should get you close since it is an assignment I will not give you the actual code.

gcc and vim

Why do you want to learn java? Do you plan to develop applications? I would recommend starting with algorithm design. Also, you mentioned that you had learned C++. If you know how to program in theory the language shouldn't matter. If you know one you know them all. If you get stuck google...