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So this is how i am taking your post! The negative FACT for me right now is how the hell did we end up with the worst president in american history for two terms!!!!

How do I deal with it?

I’m still smiling about this! How can I turn this negative fact into something positive?

I’ve already made a calendar for the day he is out of office! And I put smiley faces on every day and stars for the days he’s really stupid publicly speaking.

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If you are really new and clueless you might want to try Python first, since you need to understand the concept. Java can be overwhelming and C++ will make you frustrated if you are not keeping well with it. But then just treat language as your tools to understand the concept of programming.

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What is the actual structure of the binary file? Because your definition of “Quotes” is odd. First of all, you have an 11-byte date char array. Yet the actual space taken by it will be 16 bytes, since it is followed by a double and by default compiler aligns doubles to a multiple of 8 offset. Another problem is that you use “long” type in your definition, which means that depending on the actual binary structure, it will work either only when compiled in x86 mode or in x64 mode, because long has a different size on those. Although it might still accidentally work due to the double after it being aligned to the same place anyway.

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You didn’t declare your variable. I assume you meant to do this:

SshStream sshs = new SharpSsh.SshStream("VPS IP", "mrad", "mrad");
string command2 = "sudo ./exploit -h {0) -U -t {3} -p {1},{1}";
sshs.SshStream.Write (command2);

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As other people have mentioned before, you can’t really learn analytical skills from a book. Sure, they might have nice pointers and special methods, but in the end you have to find your own way of doing it. That means a lot of practice!

Instead of solving something just one way, try to come up with two or more ways to do it.
Also, don’t be afraid to make mistakes. For every mistake you make you have to find a new way to solve it, brilliant!

Once you’re familiar with a bit of programming, try to solve other people’s mistakes. It’s amazing what you’ll learn if you try to apply the mindset of someone else. This won’t only make it easier to understand code examples but it will also prepare you for teamwork.

Don’t fret too much about it, though. Requirements such as ‘strong analytical skills’ might seem daunting but are usually just waffle to make their classes seem fancier.

To be honest, maths are a good plus, but not essential. I’m terrible at maths but I still came out as one of the best programmers at my college. Just think outside the box.

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Simply use mysqli_connect() instead of mysql only. MySQL isn’t really suited for creating searches engines because its fulltext search isn’t that good. For that case, I’d rather go for PostgreSQL, which is a bit heavier than MySQL, but also does a better job.

As for the PHP extension, I’d suggest learning PDO as it abstracts the whole database process and lets you use the same methods for every DBMS. You could also consider using an ORM.

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I started programming in 1968 with Assembler for the IBM 360. That was a great start. Have since programmed in over 20 languages including Cobol, Fortran, Wang Basic (old computer made by Dr. Wang), many additional basic languages as well. Probably none of you have heard of Wang Basic but I can tell you it beats all the other basic languages that followed. It used MATRIX statements. How many of you have heard of this? Haven’t programmed in quite a few years now but have been thinking about trying some other language some time. Anyone have any good suggestions? Thanks. kerestesh

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I had been using my dad’s PC mostly for gaming as a kid from 1990-2001. I only knew then how to install/uninstall/format pc etc… (starting from ms-dos)
Then completely by chance I became a student at a university (in Computer Science) and in 2002 I could already write my own programs in assembly 80×86, C++ and java. I studied everything I could find online and in books about computers and programming. I graduated quite easily since it turns out I really liked computer science.
Now, it’s been more than 10 years of programming and working in IT
– I wrote my first mobile game (a space invaders kind) on a sony-ericsson with J2me (a java for mobile devices) back when the only apps you could download on your phone were java apps. Since then I have created small apps for Windows Mobile, Android and iPhone.
– I learned Flash, ActionScript and Flex (developed online apps and widgets for websites). Flash is long dead and now HTML5 is my new love! (I was always fond of javascript anyway)
– I’ve used .Net with C# to create programs as well as Java (have used sqlite, ms sql server and mysql as databases).
– My main interest and work is done with internet services though (php, apache, mysql/postgresql, html, css, javascript, a little python, java)… and security/pentesting
– I have set-up a few linux servers from scratch too (dns, email, apache, mysql, iptables etc)
– I reversed engineered/keygened my first program in 2002 (I don’t make releases though, I am too lazy and too slow for that.)
– The nature of my job was such that I constantly had to learn and use new languages and technologies (I guess that’s true for many software engineers out there).

Anyway there is so much knowledge online now that you wouldn’t know where to begin if you were starting now. Also, truth is you can never learn everything. Computer science has evolved so much and keeps evolving that you may meet colleagues in Information Technology that you have no idea what they do even if they try to explain you.

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My first ‘programming’ experience was writing mIRC scripts to connect to MSN Chat in 1999 (?), after that I worked with PHP for a few years, then as a C++ game developer for 6-7 years which was fun but stressful and required you to work long long hours, now working as a web developer with a range of languages/frameworks and enjoying it (C# / ASP.NET MVC, Ruby / Ruby on Rails, Javascript / Node.js).

Tips:

1. Read some books
2. Don’t read too many books, while understanding the concepts are extremely important if you spend more time reading than you do actually programming you’re unlikely to get very far (I fell into this trap for the 1st year)
3. Set yourself achievable goals/targets while learning, build small but useful projects

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Solved the matter by giving each element a unique ID (numeric) , and am accessing the value of the entity in question then by a unique hidden field, that way the call to js will only have alphanumeric characters and nothing breaks …

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Remove the set_time_limit(120); call, or comment it to fix this problem the easy way.

Also, The warning you are seeing is not a problem with Dman’s code, it’s something that has been inforced by the web hosting provider. So unless you contact them and ask them to change it, you can’t do anything.

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/*Define Class Box and a method to find Volume of Box. Declare an array of boxes
and find out which one is the smallest one */
import java.util.Random;

public class Box
{
int length;
int width;
int height;
int boxNum;

public Box(int l, int w, int h)
{
   length = l;
   width = w;
   height = h;
}

public int getVolume()
{
   return (length*width*height);
}

//generate a bunch of box objects with random specs
//iterate through them and find out the lowest one... somehow

public static void main(String[] args)
{
   Box[] boxesAr = new Box[10];
   Random rn = new Random();
   
   int lowestBoxNum = 0;
   int lowestVol = 10000000;
   
   for (int i = 0; i < boxesAr.length; ++i)
   {
      boxesAr[i] = new Box(rn.nextInt(15)+1,rn.nextInt(15)+1,rn.nextInt(15)+1);
      boxesAr[i].boxNum = i + 1; //boxNum is ONE greater than the Box Object index in the boxesAr
      //System.out.println("Box " + boxesAr[i].boxNum + " has a volume of " + boxesAr[i].getVolume());
      if (boxesAr[i].getVolume() < lowestVol)
      {
         lowestVol = boxesAr[i].getVolume();
         lowestBoxNum = boxesAr[i].boxNum;
      }
      
   }
   
   System.out.println("The box with the smallest volume is " + lowestBoxNum + " and it has a volume of " + lowestVol + ".");
   
}
   
}

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The above should help you programming wise and considering this is homework you should try to do it yourself. Below I will explain how to do it without providing code unless I get extra time.

Basically it wants you to randomly generate 3 numbers those being the height, width and depth of the box. You may then want to generate this 3 times, so you would want 3 values for each of the 3 boxes. You could generate these numbers using the maths random function. After you’ve done this you would probably want to times these 3 values together to get the volume of each of the 3 boxes. Once you have the volumes all you have to do is loop through them to see which is the smallest…

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Keep your HTML / CSS. You’ll always need your basic mark up to express yourself at a dot com position on the web.
Your command line is not a programming language but is definitely required if you wish to use root access to any web server. Plus it’ll help you understand the OS a lot better!

Ruby or Python is brilliant! It depends what your end goal is for the project, to which you should use.
.NET might be an option, I worked in a global company which had in-house .NET programmers on a decent salary, they built pretty much 80% of their in-house tools using .NET.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQRjWxfz-PQ
https://blog.udemy.com/modern-language-wars/

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create classes that will be model for your page, then change your html controls to html. TextBoxFor kind of statements. Css img can be used as such, js might need little changes.
Again if you are new in mvc world, you might take little longer, but it is easy to learn mvc