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Using the Deque class in Recursive Algorithms

This snippet focuses on the uses of the STL deque class in a recursive algorithm, namely to solve a maze.

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One Source Code,different Results, MACROS v/s FUNCTIONS

his one''s basically shows that MACROS when used in different compilers can give different results. This one teaches you to analyse C++ code and read it in Assembly and draw Conclusions about the results. Really interesting if you read it comp...

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Count Instances of Process or Application in C/C++

This article describes how to count the number of instances of a process that are currently running on the system. It is written in C++ for Windows, but could be ported to other systems and languages easily. (Linux, Visual Basic/VB, C, Unix, MacOS) T...

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Ip address of a computer using winsock

There is a function gethostbyname for getting the ip address using Winsock. This function will retrieve the ip address details into a variable of type &"structure hostent&". Read for more info at &<a href=http://www.coder...

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C# Version 2.0 Specification

C# 2.0 introduces several language extensions, the most important of which are Generics, Anonymous Methods, Iterators, and Partial Types. The language extensions in C# 2.0 were designed to ensure maximum compatibility with existing code. For exampl...

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Calculate Distance Between Two Points Using Longitude && Latitude

Tutorial and sample codes to calculate the distance between two locations. Free sample source codes in PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, C/C++, C#, Java, Perl, Visual Basic and Javascript. Longitude and latitude for United States ZIP Code and Canadian Postal Cod...

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Casting in C++

The new C++ standard is full of powerful additions to the language: templates, run-time type identification (RTTI), namespaces, and exceptions to name a few. This tutorial discusses one of the minor extensions: the new C++ casting operators.

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DirectX Programming

A tutorial to help C++ programmers who are new to DirectX get acquainted with the libraries, in particular DirectDraw and DirectInput.

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The VGA Training Program

This tutorial will teach you how to create some graphics over C++ and Pascal. It requires some programming knowledge.

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Allegro Vivace

This is a comprehensive tutorial to guide newcomers to game programming and Allegro through the process of writing a simple game. Allegro is a game programming library.

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