Programming - HKT SOFT

In most Web projects, only issues of copyright need to be dealt with, not those of industrial property rights, such as patents, designs, and trademarks. [ ...]

Intellectual Property in Web Design

A Web project probably involves more rights than any other type of project, given the many different media objects usually used. For example, in a [ ...]

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property (IP) is a general term used to describe a creation of the mind (hence, intellectual) or a creative activity. A creation can be [ ...]

Web Project Management Phases

Web projects present similar types of management issues as other types of projects. The same set of variables, which range from the look and feel [ ...]

PHP

History and Evolution of PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor” where “Preprocessor” means that changes happen before the HTML page is created. This converts static webpage to dynamic webpage with the capacity to interact with databases. The PHP programming language is commonly used for developing web-based software applications. However, the use of the language is [ ...]

Installing and Configuring the PHP Engine

If you want to write some PHP programs, you need a PHP engine to turn them from punctuation-studded text files into actual interactive web pages. [ ...]

Localizing Output in PHP

An application used by people all over the world not only has to handle different character sets properly, but also has to produce messages in [ ...]

Sorting and Comparing in PHP

PHP’s built-in text sorting and comparison functions also operate on a byte-by-byte basis following the order of letters in the English alphabet. Turn to the [ ...]

Manipulating Text in PHP

Since the strlen() function only counts bytes, it reports incorrect results when a character requires more than one byte. To count the characters in a [ ...]

Running a PHP REPL

The built-in web server is a great way to quickly see your PHP code in action. Another handy tool for exploration and testing is the [ ...]

Using PHP’s Built-in Web Server

If you want to check out how some PHP code you’re writing behaves with real requests from a web browser, a quick way to dive [ ...]

CSS

CSS History – A Brief Overview

Before Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) there was very little that could be done to change the design of a web page. While Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) creates documents for the World Wide Web, it was specifically designed to hold the content of a web page. Housed in a separate file, CSS [ ...]

How to FoLLow Changes and Additions to CSS

Keeping track of all this can be overwhelming. Just when you think you’re up to date on everything, you find a new spec that you [ ...]

Container Queries in CSS

Almost as soon as media queries landed in browsers, developers began asking for a way to change the layout of components based on the width [ ...]

Creating Brick-like Layouts with masonry in CSS

Firefox is also the only browser that currently supports masonry-style grid layouts. It’s still experimental at this stage. You’ll need to enable it by changing [ ...]

Nested Grids with subgrid in CSS

Applying display: grid to an element creates a grid formatting context, and turns its immediate child elements into grid items. Children of grid items, however, [ ...]

Using SVG with Media Queries in CSS

With HTML documents, we might show, hide, or rearrange parts of the page based on the conditions of the viewport. If the browser window is [ ...]

Animating and Transitioning SVG CSS Properties

Using CSS with SVG becomes more interesting when we add transitions and animations to the mix. The process is just like animating HTML elements with [ ...]

Learning C & C# & C++See more

C Programming Language: History, Features, Structure and Why Study it

28/12/2020

This article describes a brief history, formation and structure of the famous C programming language which is considered to be the standard programming language taught to students who are new to learning computer programming. History of C Programming Language. C was created in 1972 at Bell Laboratories of USA by [ ...]

Object-Oriented Programming:Defining a C# Class to Work with Fractions

As the final example in this chapter, Program 19.4 shows the fraction example written in C#, a programming language developed by Microsoft, Inc. C# is [ ...]

Object-Oriented Programming:Defining a C++ Class to Work with Fractions

Program 19.3 shows how a program to implement a Fraction class might be written using the C++ language. C++ has become an extremely popular programming [ ...]

Object-Oriented Programming:Defining an Objective-C Class to Work with Fractions

The Objective-C language was invented by Brad Cox in the early 1980s. The language was based on a language called SmallTalk-80 and was licensed by [ ...]

Object-Oriented Programming: Writing a C Program to Work with Fractions

Suppose you need to write a program to work with fractions. Perhaps you need to deal with adding, subtracting, multiplying them, and so on.You could [ ...]

Object-Oriented Programming in C

1. What Is an Object Anyway? An object is a thing. Think about object-oriented programming as a thing and something you want to do to [ ...]

Debugging Programs with gdb in C Programming Language

gdb is a powerful interactive debugger that is frequently used to debug programs com- piled with GNU’s gcc compiler. It allows you to run your [ ...]

Introduction to C# programming language: why learn by comparing with C, C++, Java

C# is designed for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), which describes executable code and runtime environment. This allows usage of multiple high-level languages on various computer platforms and architectures. Common Language Runtime (CLR) is defined in the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). CLR is the Virtual Machine component managing the execution [ ...]

C# Resources and the Future

This chapter provides some resources for learning more about C# and provides some ideas about how C# will evolve in the future. 1. C# Resources [ ...]

C# Compared to Other Languages

Tiis chapter compares C# to other languages. C#, C++, and Java all share common roots and are more similar to each other than they are [ ...]

The Command-Line Compiler in C#

This chapter describes the command-line switches that you can pass to the compiler. Options that can be abbreviated are shown with the abbreviated portion in [ ...]

Defensive Programming in C# – Part 3

Tiis chapter discusses the techniques for writing code in a manner that reduces the chances of bugs and delivers high-performance, reliable assemblies suitable for production [ ...]

Defensive Programming in C# – Part 2: Using Switches to Control Debug and Trace

The previous example showed how to control logging based upon a bool variable. The drawback of this approach is that there must be a way [ ...]

Defensive Programming in C# – Part 1

The .NET runtime provides a few facilities for making programming less dangerous. You can use conditional methods and tracing to add checks and log code [ ...]

C++

C++ Programming Language: History, Features, Uses, Applications & Advantages

C++ is a general-purpose programming language created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or “C with Classes”. The language has expanded significantly over time, and modern C++ now has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation. It is almost always implemented as a compiled language, and many vendors provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, LLVM, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, [ ...]

Recursion versus Iteration and Tail Recursion

1. Recursion versus Iteration Recursion is an alternative form of program control. It is essentially repetition without a loop. Recursion is an alternative form of [ ...]

Eight Queens in C++

The Eight Queens problem can be solved using recursion. This section gives a recursive solution to the Eight Queens problem presented earlier. The task is [ ...]

Towers of Hanoi in C++

The classic Towers of Hanoi problem can be solved easily using recursion, but it is difficult to solve otherwise. The Towers of Hanoi problem is [ ...]

Recursive Helper Functions in C++

Sometimes you can find a solution to the original problem by defining a recursive function to a problem similar to the original problem. This new [ ...]

Problem Solving Using Recursion in C++

If you think recursively, you can solve many problems using recursion. The preceding sections presented two classic recursion examples. All recursive functions have the following [ ...]

C++ Case Study: Fibonacci Numbers

In some cases, recursion enables you to create an intuitive, straightforward, simple Point solution to a problem. The factorial function in the preceding section easily [ ...]

GitHub, NodeJS, MongoDB, AngularJS, Bootstrap 4, jQuery, Unix – LinuxSee more

What Is GitHub? A Beginner’s Introduction to GitHub

Git is an Open Source Distributed Version Control System. Now that’s a lot of words to define Git. Let me break it down and explain the wording: Control System: This basically means that Git is a content tracker. So Git can be used to store content — it is mostly used to store [ ...]

Ten Tips for Being an Effective GitHub Community Member

24/01/2023

1. Be Respectful and Kind Maintaining a repository can be a frustrating affair — especially when it’s a popular repository and you’re volunteering your free time to an open source project and you’re about to answer the same question for the hundredth time. It’s understandable that you may be very [ ...]

Ten Ways to Improve Your Development Workflow on GitHub

24/01/2023

1. Drafting Pull Requests Chapter 8 discusses creating pull requests when you’re ready to have code reviewed and merged into the main branch of a repository. But that’s not the only way to [ ...]

Ten Ways to Level Up on GitHub

24/01/2023

1. Trial and Error One the best ways to learn anything is to just try. When you try, you always learn. If you try and fail, you learn what not to do and [ ...]

Finding Funding for Events on GitHub

23/01/2023

Some of these events and conferences can get expensive. Microsoft BUILD can cost upwards of $2,500, and Google I/O is close to $1,200 — not to mention the transportation and parking to get [ ...]

Speaking at Events on GitHub

23/01/2023

A lot of developers have the misconception that speaking at conferences is only for experts who have been in the industry for years or that only big extroverted personalities speak at conferences. We’re [ ...]

Database: SQL, SQL server, Data structures and algorithmsSee more

SQL – Structured Query Language: Introduction, Evolution

SQL is a programming language that is used to communicate and manipulate databases. SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, is a programming language that is used to communicate with and manipulate databases. In order to get the most of the mounds of data they collect, many businesses must become [ ...]

What is SQL Server? Introduction, History, Types, Versions

SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. It is primarily designed and developed to compete with MySQL and Oracle database. SQL Server supports ANSI SQL, which is the standard SQL (Structured Query Language) language. However, SQL Server comes with its own implementation of the SQL language, [ ...]

Introduction to Databases: Evolution, Types and Features

A database is an organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. A database is usually controlled by a database management system (DBMS). Together, the data and the DBMS, along with the applications that are associated with them, are referred to as a database system, [ ...]

SQL

CD-ROM Installation Guide

The bonus CD-ROM that accompanies this book includes full-function Windows NT/2000 versions of these three leading brands of SQL-based DBMS: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 IBM DB2 MySQL In addition, the last section of this appendix contains instructions on how to download a trial version of the Oracle DBMS. These are [ ...]

CD-ROM Installation Guide

The bonus CD-ROM that accompanies this book includes full-function Windows NT/2000 versions of these three leading brands of SQL-based DBMS: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 IBM [ ...]

SQL Information Schema Standard

This appendix describes the Information Schema views specified by the SQL2 (SQL-92) standard. These views must be supported by any database system claiming Intermediate or [ ...]

SQL Call-Level Interface

For clarity, the routines are presented here with two differences from the standard. The names of the parameters of the routines are abbreviated in this [ ...]

SQL Syntax Reference

The ANSI/ISO SQL standard specifies the syntax of the SQL language using a formal BNF notation. Unfortunately, the standard is difficult to read and understand [ ...]

Database Vendor Profiles

The database systems vendors profiled in this appendix have been selected because of their unique positions within the broader database industry. They include the providers [ ...]

The Sample Database

Most of the examples in this book are based on the sample database described in this appendix. The sample database contains data that supports a [ ...]

SQL Server

SQL Server Machine Learning Services: Predictive Modeling with Python in SQL Server

As briefly introduced in Chapter 32, predictive analytics comprises a variety of statistical techniques from machine learning that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events. In the business sector, for example, predictive models analyze patterns found in historical and transactional data to identify possible risks and/or [ ...]

SQL Server Machine Learning Services: Predictive Modeling with Python in SQL Server

As briefly introduced in Chapter 32, predictive analytics comprises a variety of statistical techniques from machine learning that analyze current and historical data to make [ ...]

SQL Server Machine Learning Services: Data Visualization with Python

As mentioned earlier in the chapter, one of the advantages of Python is that it supports a large number of open source libraries, which you [ ...]

Python: An Introduction

Python is a programming language that can be used for many purposes, including machine learning. The most important advantages of the language are Simple syntax [ ...]

SQL Server Machine Learning Services: Predictive Modeling with

Predictive analytics comprises a variety of statistical techniques from machine learning that analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events. In the [ ...]

SQL Server Machine Learning Services: Data Visualization

As previously mentioned, one of the most important advantages of the R language is that it enables you to visualize output data in many different [ ...]

SQL Server R Services

Data structures & Algorithms

SQL Server R Services is an add-on component of SQL Server Machine Learning Services and is used for executing R scripts on SQL Server. The [ ...]

Other applications of the genetic algorithm

There are countless problems, both on graphs and on generic data structures, that can be formulated as optimization problems, for which a genetic algorithm could [ ...]

Genetic algorithms: Minimum vertex cover

Now we can be quite satisfied with our genetic algorithm for TSP, and we can move on to new, interesting, and of course NP-Hard problems [ ...]

Genetic algorithms: TSP

We described the travelling salesman problem (or TSP for short) in chapter 17, where we also provided a solution based on simulated annealing. Figure 18.14 [ ...]

Genetic algorithms: Biologically inspired, fast-converging optimization

When it comes to optimization algorithms, the gist is that we are trying to replace a brute-force search over the whole problem space with a [ ...]

Simulated annealing and graph embedding

To solve the TSP, we were dealing with a graph while ignoring its embedding,[1] the only thing that mattered was the distance between pair of [ ...]

Simulated annealing + traveling salesman