Sometimes Computer Science students struggle to find a final year research topic. In this post, you will find some ideas that can help you define a topic you can develop for your final year research project. Once you choose your project, it is time to write your research proposal. I’ll leave some links at the […]
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A problem statement is one of the main components of a research proposal in academia. Many students struggle to write them in a acceptable way. Because of its importance, I’ll explain to you how to write a good problem statement for your research proposal. Definition A problem statement is a form of knowledge, where a
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Command-line arguments or parameters are useful in many situations. In this post, I will give you examples of when and why to use them, as well as some examples. The short answer is you can get all the command-line arguments using the following code. Keep reading to find out when and why to use them.
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Command-line arguments are a useful way to gather input for our console application. In this post, I’ll show how to use these types of arguments in your console applications. Why do we use command-line arguments? As you should know by now, algorithms solve a problem by taking input and calculating an output. For instance, you
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Wouldn’t be cool to write a program that generates programs or code? The answer to that is closely related to the concept of metaprogramming and metaclasses (in Python). In this post, you will learn how to write code that generates code and some of the situations that can make this technique very useful. Metaclasses are
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Files in programming is a very important topic. It is usually taught in introductory programming courses because of its importance. In this post, you will learn why we need files in programming and some examples of how to use them. What is a file in programming? As stated in Wikipedia: “A computer file is a
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Why use git in programming is a common question among beginners. Some think it is unnecessary until they face the problems of not using it. In this post, I will show you the main problems of not using it. So, you can decide if you should use it or not on your own. The problem
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Unit test is a widely used approach by developers to ensure that code does not have errors. Therefore, beginners (and not beginners) need to understand what is and how to use it. “Unit tests are typically automated tests written and run by software developers to ensure that a section of an application (known as the “unit”) meets its design and behaves
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One of the General Tree Data Structure example of application is to create game trees. In this post, you will learn how to print some levels of the game tree for the popular game Tic-tac-toe. Tic-Tac-Toe The Tic-tac-toe game consists of a 3×3 board. One player place X’s on the board and the other one
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A Java Console Menu Application is a great way to start learning programming. With a menu console application, you can easily test your code and see results after giving certain inputs. In this post, I’ll show how to create a Java console menu application. To create a menu for a Java console application, I recommend
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