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Head First Python, Paul Barry

Posted on March 18, 2012 by deoren

(Full disclosure: This book was provided for review at no cost to me) What you need to know: This book is geared towards a reader who has experience in at least one other programming language. I had a hard time … Continue reading →

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Renaming files with Python

Posted on March 3, 2012 by deoren

I downloaded some PowerPoint slides and wmv programming videos from a college website and the original file names had spaces in them, so my browser’s downloader plugin converted the spaces to _20. I wanted to rename them so they wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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C++ Overloading, overriding and hiding, oh my!

Posted on February 29, 2012 by deoren

Continuing where I left off previously, I’ve been going through chapter 9, Inheritance and Polymorphism from Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ 2008 and consulting various other books a little more often than I had been up until now. One of … Continue reading →

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Why a base class pointer to a derived class object is ok

Posted on February 29, 2012 by deoren

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve been going through Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++ 2008 and thanks to the good folks at cprogramming.com, I’ve been steered back on course by numerous helpful posts while working through chapter exercises. For … Continue reading →

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You Can Do It! A Beginner’s Introduction to Computer Programming

Posted on February 5, 2012 by deoren

I picked up this book and the follow-up You Can Program in C++: A Programmer’s Introduction book several years ago while flailing about in an attempt to learn C++. The short version of why I didn’t succeed was that I … Continue reading →

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