Function declaration, definition and argument passing in C++
Similar to variables in C++, functions have to be declared before they are used. There are different ways do declare functions in C++. Let’s review two examples: int firstWay(int, int); int...
View ArticleUsing properties in C#
Being a C++ programmer, the concept of the properties in C# was a little confusing at first. But after a few lines of code it turned out to be a quite interesting thing. Let’s start with a simple...
View ArticleUsing the let keyword in F# – MS Programming Language
For those who have a thing for functional programming the new MS programming language F# is more than a breath of fresh air. F# is multi-paradigm programming language which encompasses both functional...
View ArticleCreating a type-safe list by using a generic collection in C#
Safe types are the key to creating code which is easy to maintain. The language and the framework find most of the bugs during compilation (and not run-time after the product has been delivered). In...
View ArticleUsing stored procedures in MS SQL
Basically stored procedures are functions that you can create in a database and use multiple times. Using stored procedures is considered a good practice and holds many advantages. One of them is that...
View ArticleUsing the SQL Auto Increment field
Quite often, when creating a new SQL table, one can’t simply think of a proper column for the Primary Key. Whether it is because of the structure of the table or because you are creating it in the...
View ArticleUsing SQL SELECT INTO statement
Quite often, when managing SQL databases, we wish to create a copy of a whole table or a few columns of it. This comes handy when we want to create a backup of a table or to archive a part of a table...
View ArticleFundamentals of Object Oriented Programming
This article is about my experience with Object Oriented programming.Its when I started learning java (an almost truly object oriented programming) and introduced to concept like abstract classes ,...
View ArticleHow to Handle Null Values with the COALESCE Function in SQL Server
This tutorial will show how to use the COALESCE function to handle null values at run time. The COALESCE() function is used to specify how we want to treat NULL values. It returns the first non-null...
View ArticleFunction overloading by return type in C++
Commercial modern day languages often get criticized because they don’t support function overloading by return type. That is to say, functions cannot be distinguished by return type. For example: int...
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