Pointer Arithmetic

First, the binky video may help. It’s a nice video about pointers. For arithmetic, here is an example: (Note that incrementing a pointer that contains a null pointer value strictly is undefined behavior. We used NULL because we were only interested in the value of the pointer. Normally, only use increment/decrement when pointing to elements … Read more

Is “from matplotlib import pyplot as plt” == “import matplotlib.pyplot as plt”?

Even though they are equivalent, I think there is a pretty good argument that the second form import matplotlib.pyplot as plt is objectively more readable: It is generally customary to use import matplotlib.pyplot as plt and suggested in the matplotlib documentation (see http://matplotlib.org/users/pyplot_tutorial.html etc…) so this will be more familiar to most readers. import matplotlib.pyplot … Read more

Making my own toString() method on c++ struct

I’m used to oveerriding the Java toString() method on my own objects in classes, but I’m not sure where I’m going wrong with the following code: I’m only beginning to learn c++ so any advice would be appreciated

Ubuntu says “bash: ./program Permission denied” [closed]

chmod u+x program_name. Then execute it. If that does not work, copy the program from the USB device to a native volume on the system. Then chmod u+x program_name on the local copy and execute that. Unix and Unix-like systems generally will not execute a program unless it is marked with permission to execute. The … Read more