the asp kid

Hey all! It’s been awhile so I thought I’d update you all. I finish with school this month and then I am free for the summer so I am going to start on the videos then. I am posting this from my iPod and the keyboard is very easy to use, I highly recommend one of these to everybody.

Hello everyone! I was one of the lucky individuals to get into the Windows 7 BETA test, and let me tell you, this operating system is amazing. So amazing, in fact, that I used it to test my video settings for my soon-to-come C++ VTMs. (Soon as in tomorrow!) So, enjoy the video and please, comment on what you liked and disliked about it, etcetera.

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Hey all, I thought I would feed you some candy. I unfortunately got sick again, and lost my voice (this is really pathetic now). So, the videos have been delayed, but I hope to start by mid-this week. So, I hope I can get some videos out to you by Tuesday or Wednesday. Thanks for your patience!

Hey all! I thought I would post what I got for Christmas, and I would also like to know what you guys got, or if you didn’t get anything, what you got for others. And if nothing happened, just how you are feeling today. Below is what I got:

Toys

• NECA Gears of War Marcus Fenix
• NECA Gears of War Damon Baird
• NECA Gears of War Dominic Santiago
• NECA Gears of War Theron Sentinel

Movies

• Cloverfield DVD
• Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest DVD
• I AM LEGEND DVD
• Band of Brothers Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition

Musical

• Ibanez 12-String Acoustic Guitar

College Dorm Things

• Magic Bullet (YES!)
• Cloverfield-Liberty Painting

Hello, as a Christmas present, I am presenting you all with the next challenge! I know, you are all very excited, well without further ado, let me introduce you to it.

Challenge

Allow the user to choose an array size. Once the user has chosen the array size, populate one array with random numbers ranging from 1-50, and then populate a second array with random numbers ranging from 1-5. After the two arrays have been populated, cycle through each index in the first array and put it to the power of the corresponding index in the second array. Store each of these values in a third array. The output should be as follows:

Exponential Fun!
Please input an array size: 10
Array 1: {2, 5, 8, 10, 32, 1, 6, 13, 9, 47}
Array 2: {2, 3, 1, 1, 4, 5, 5, 2, 1, 3}
Calculating…
Array 3: {4, 125, 8, 10, 1048576, 1, 7776, 169, 9, 103823}

When posting your solution, please provide the source code and the console output.

I hope you all enjoy and good luck! I will be posting my source code once a few people have done it.

Post your answers in the message boards here.

Hello all, I am just popping in here to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Enjoy your time with family and friends and remember to be safe if you are travelling.

Hello all, I am going to be starting a new thing here. Every Wednesday, I will try to post a web spotlight for a website whom I think has excelled in providing the community with great educational value and assistance. The first site that I am going to be featuring is SampsonVideos.

What Is It?

From the Website

sampsonvideos is a force that may be propelling illiteracy in youth today who find an interest in web-development and graphic design. Sorry.

Join instructor Jonathan Sampson as he goes subject to subject showing how to use technologies like Photoshop, CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP and MySQL to develop attractive and professoinal websites.

In my own words, SampsonVideos is one of the best things out there for programmers and designers alike. The owner, Jonathan Sampson, is a genius when it comes to web development, and he is one of the people who inspired myself to do what I am doing now. He strongly supports free education, and plans to share what he knows with everyone.

What Can I Learn?

SampsonVideos teaches web development. If you are interested in creating your own website, or want to know how it’s done, or need to know some Javascript to get that extra feature, then he can teach you it. His forums are full of people willing to help, and you can bet that any question you have will be responded to and answered extremely fast.

Hey all! So, we have gotten a few responses in the forums with how people have been doing this, so I thought I would go ahead and share how I did it. If I recall, only one other person did it in C++, but oh well haha. Below is the source code, commented for you.

#include <iostream> //Include the Input/Output stream header file.
using namespace std; //Use the standard namespace.

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) //Begin the main function.
{
	int randomArray[10]; //Create the array that we will store the user’s input into.
	int lowestNumber; //An integer to hold the index of the lowest number.
	int placeHolder; //An placeholder variable to hold the original value in the index we replace.

	cout << "Input ten unsorted integers…\n"; //Tell the user what to do.
	for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) //Cycle through the array, having them put in a value for each item.
	{
		cout << "[" << i << "] = ";
		cin >> randomArray[i];
	}

	cout << "Unsorted List = ";
	for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) //Output the original list.
	{
		cout << randomArray[i] << ", ";
	}

	cout << "\nSorting…"; //The sorting begins. (GASP)
	for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) //Cycle through each value in the array.
	{
		lowestNumber = i; //Set the default value of lowestNumber to the current index.
		for(int i2 = i; i2 < 10; i2++) //Set i2 equal to i so that we always start after the lowest number.
		{
			if(randomArray[lowestNumber] > randomArray[i2]) //Check to see if the value in the index of lowestNumber
				lowestNumber = i2;                          //is greater than the value in the index of randomArray.
			else                                            //If it is, replace lowestNumber with the new index.
				continue;
		}

		placeHolder = randomArray[i]; //Assign the placeholder value.
		randomArray[i] = randomArray[lowestNumber]; //Set value of randomArray at i equal to the value held at the lowestNumber index.
		randomArray[lowestNumber] = placeHolder; //Set the value of the number at the index of lowestNumber in the randomArray to the
	}										     //placeholder value.

	cout << "\nSorted List = ";
	for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) //Spit out the sorted list.
	{
		cout << randomArray[i] << ", ";
	}

	cout << "\n";

	return 0;
}

Go ahead and stop by the message boards to see how others have done this challenge! Click the link here. And also share how you would do it (if it is different than the ones up)

I’ll have a new challenge up soon!

As most of you can tell by coming here, you notice that I have changed the forum theme as well as this theme. I tried to modify this theme to look as much like the forum as possible. I ask you to please post all feedback concerning these changes here so that I may further adjust them to your needs. Thank you!

Hello all, I have got boards up and running for us to discuss things on! I encourage you to go there to read, ask questions, or just to do whatever you feel like doing. You can post questions, get help on programming challenges, among many other things. Thank you and I hope to see you over there.

You can find the link at the top of the right sidebar.

The message boards are now up and running. I switched from PHPBB3 to IPB.