Coder KB: General Coding Concepts Topic

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17 Articles Found in the General Coding Concepts Topic 

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523 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 1. Event Handler In computer programming, an event handler is part of event driven programming where the events ar... 9/20/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
865 Hits	KB Post	Wes Peterson 2. Is Native Code Irrelevant? With Microsoft heavily evangelizing .NET, and Sun continuing to improve Java, many a developer an... 8/20/2009, Updated: 9/27/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1135 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 3. Programming Literals A value directly written into the source code of a computer program (as opposed to an identifier... 2/24/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1173 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 4. Inline Routines Instead of calling a routine, you move the code from the routine itself and expand it in place of... 2/24/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1156 Hits	Tip	Mike Prestwood 5. Round Floating Point Numbers When comparing floating point numbers, make sure you round to an acceptable level of rounding for the type of application you are using. 2/24/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1136 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 6. Pointers / References A pointer is a variable type that allows you to refer indirectly to another object. Inst... 2/24/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
676 Hits	Tip	Mike Prestwood 7. Branching: Frequent Conditions First Most languages support a branching mechanism like if a..elseif b..elseif c. If <... 12/30/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1194 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 8. Computer Language Constants A constant is just like a variable (it holds a value) but, unlike a variable, you cannot change the value of a constant. 12/16/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1394 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 9. Overloading Types of overloading include method overloading and operator overloading. Method Overloa... 10/30/2008, Updated: 2/13/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
716 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 10. Computer Language Statement An elementary instruction or other elementary component in a high-level programming language. When d... 10/16/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
726 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 11. Computer Language Operator A language symbol used for assignment, comparison, computational, or as a logical. 10/16/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1601 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 12. Unary Operator An operation with only one operand (a single input). Common unary operators include + 10/16/2008, Updated: 2/19/2009	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1165 Hits	Definition	Stephen Berry 13. Stack A queue-like data structure which supports the last in, first out functionality. 6/30/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
2019 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 14. Associative Array A set of unique keys linked to a set of values. Each unique key is associated with a value. Think of it as a two column table. MyArray['CA'] = 'California' MyArray['AR'] = 'Arizona' 6/18/2008, Updated: 6/26/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1330 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 15. Black Box The term black box refers to not being able to see what is within the box. For example, in coding, y... 6/24/2007, Updated: 6/26/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1344 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 16. Array A data type that is a collection of variables (much like a table is a collection of fields). There a... 3/19/2003, Updated: 6/26/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts
1225 Hits	Definition	Mike Prestwood 17. API API is an acronym for application programming interface. The Windows API is the set of DLLs that mak... 3/19/2003, Updated: 6/26/2008	Coding & OO >> General Coding Concepts

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