Lounge - December 2018

What is the use of competitive programming in real life? Why are competitive programmers being offered high packages without much development skill? I am ask...

[6 replies] Last: Sounds like a repeat of the 90s/2000s interview brain teasers. "When ... (by helios)

by closed account 1vf9z8AR

Where is the admin?

Does the admin exist anymore? Just curious

[2 replies] Last: The rumor is that he uses two (or more) accounts, one for official not... (by Computergeek01)

by Grime

Best programming language for competitive programming?

Is C++ used often?

[3 replies] Last: C++ might be the fastest, but it's rather bare bones which is a proble... (by Thomas1965)

by mycuser

C++ book reviews

Hello everyone. That's what I miss the most in my web surfing. There are quite a few threads about good books to read, all aver this forum. Some of the poste...

[6 replies] Last: Hello all, I get the idea as I review all reponses that I need ( more ... (by mycuser)

by HealCode

Programming languages, to which market they are oriented

When we search the 10 most searched programming languages in Google, we find a generality seen between JS, JAVA, c / c ++ / c #, python, ruby on rai...

[11 replies] Last: Sorry if it's breaking a rule or something (I don't know if it counts ... (by Grime)

by Thomas1965

Report: Despite High JavaScript Demand, Student Devs Learning Ruby and Python

Despite a gap between the supply of available JavaScript talent and enterprise demand for such skills, student developers are more interested in learning Ruby ...

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by Thomas1965

Visual Studio 2019 Preview

Our pre-release gives you early access to the new features not yet in Visual Studio. Install the Preview right alongside your main release, leaving your produ...

[1 reply] : Thanks for the info; I will take a look at it. (by chicofeo)

by Thomas1965

COBOL Is Everywhere. Who Will Maintain It?

Think COBOL is dead? About 95 percent of ATM swipes use COBOL code, Reuters reported in April, and the 58-year-old language even powers 80 percent of in-person ...

[19 replies] Last: There's no point in using PC based COBOL compilers. The only reason C... (by kbw)

by Thomas1965

Open Source .NET – 4 years later

A little over 4 years ago Microsoft announced that they were open sourcing large parts of the .NET framework and as this slide from New Features in .NET Core...

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by salem c

New user edit rights

So another noob has trashed their thread after getting their free food. http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/246678/ For how long can users edit their th...

[5 replies] Last: There was talk about storing previous versions of edits and restoring ... (by closed account z05DSL3A)

by Thomas1965

How to Use The Newest C++ String Conversion Routines - std::from_chars

With C++17 we get another facility to handle the conversion between text and numbers. Why should we care about the new routines? Are they better in any way? ...

[2 replies] Last: from_chars is low-level, and offers the best possible performance. ... (by Ganado)

by Satan

About connecting to websites often

Often times when you're writing programs that need to connect to websites, you'll have to have the program connect to the website very often if not every second...

[3 replies] Last: Peter, that's one more thing that I hadn't considered. Okay so this is... (by Satan)

by uplime

Advent Of Code

Just a friendly reminder that Advent of Code goes live tonight (can't wait!:) ) https://adventofcode.com

[1 reply] : So it's like daily Christmas-themed programming puzzles, cool thanks f... (by Ganado)

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