Code Review Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, May 28, 2015

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Top new questions this week: Simple calculator in C I made a very simple calculator in C that allows the user to perform calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This is my first C program that I've made outside of my ... beginner c calculator   asked by Daniel Morris 15 votes answered by SirPython 12 votes Can I buff up your file? Here I have a method for reading the contents of a file into a buffer and returning whether or not it is successful. Here is what I would like reviewed: Speed: Am I reading in the file as fast as ... performance c file pointers   asked by syb0rg 15 votes answered by Gareth Rees 19 votes Mandelbrot image generator I have written a C program to generate a PPM (Portable Pixmap) image of the Mandelbrot set. The program implements many things in C I am fairly unfamiliar with (Structures, error handling, use of new ... performance c image   asked by psychedelic_alex 14 votes answered by thurizas 11 votes Convert any number (up to 10^3000) to text I kinda got the idea after playing Adventure Capitalist, since that goes up to 10300. I found a website that explained how to go up to 10^3000, so I mainly did this as a challenge to see if I could do ... python numbers-to-words   asked by Peter 12 votes answered by Caridorc 3 votes Slot Machine Constructor This is a fun little program I made of a fruit machine gambler, aka "slot machine". What mistakes am I making? How can I make this better OOP programming, less spaghetti? var spin = false; var ... javascript jquery random animation   asked by user3224271 11 votes answered by SirPython 6 votes Prorated refund calculator I wrote this little piece of script for my workplace (insurance, etc.) to help our admins, as a light and simple file I can just email to my colleagues. The purpose of it is to calculate a prorated ... javascript html datetime finance   asked by Phrancis 11 votes answered by janos 4 votes FizzBuzzWoofFooBar My C++ was starting to get rusty and I never touched some of the newer features. Reason enough to try something simple and make it overly complicated: FizzBuzz with bonus features. For now we'll call ... c++ fizzbuzz   asked by Mast 11 votes answered by glampert 10 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Vending machine implementation How would one optimize this code? import java.util.*; public class VendingMachineAssignement { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); ... java console   asked by Kawaiiii 11 votes answered by syb0rg 20 votes Brute force password-cracker I am just coding some classic brute force password cracking program, just to improve myself. I've explained how my program works at the start of the code. Check some of those screenshots to ... c++ performance beginner loop   asked by daktari 11 votes answered by Jamal 12 votes Can you answer these? YouTube Search Result Scraper This is a program I wrote in Python using the BeautifulSoup library. The program scrapes YouTube search results for a given query and extracts data from the channels returned in the search results. ... python web-scraping beautiful-soup   asked by dk1 4 votes Go Fish game written in Go A couple months back I made a go fish game in Go, just for the sake of that pun. It was pretty poorly done and made experienced Go-ers cry when they looked at it. I rewrote some of it to be more ... beginner playing-cards go   asked by Joshua Snider 6 votes Selecting and inserting MySQL records using PDO This PHP class connects to and queries the database MuSKL. I am a novice, and I ask you to comment on the approach and style of code. <?php class MysqlAccess { private $dsn = ... php beginner mysql pdo   asked by mrBroot 3 votes

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