September 2007 - Posts
An interesting question came up from a few of my students while teaching my class . Some of them discovered a bug in their programs which they did not understand. They were writing a program which was doing some calculations on currency. Computer Programmers
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I recently started teaching a course for the Computer Science Department at Kent State University . I am teaching a course called Introduction to Computer Programming. It is a course teaching non-computer science majors the basics of programming. In this
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Update (24 March 2008): Steve Smith found a more reliable solution to install the SQL Server Client Tools . Once in the tools folder open the setup folder and in there is a SqlRun_Tools.msi file. If you run that it should actually install SSMS. When I
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I recently needed to convert hexadecimal numbers into integer numbers. So for your benefit, and for mine when I forget how to do this, I will tell you a couple of ways to convert numbers of these types. Both methods are quite simple and easy to use. string
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I read every blog post Scott Guthrie writes, and I intend to keep it that way. In his most recent blog post he let me know about Silverlight's 1.0 release as well as the announcement that Silverlight will be formally supported for Linux. Silverlight has
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