I am teaching myself how to program. But there seems to be a big gap between intro courses/resources (CodeCademy, O'Reilly books, Learn X the Hard Way) and Actually Doing Things. Help me figure out a road plan?
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posted by Phire
on May 6, 2013 -
16 answers
In this game, you roll a number of six-sided dice to get a
total. The total is either the highest single die result, or the sum of any multiples rolled, whichever is higher.
For example: If I roll three dice and get a 3, 4, and 6, my total is 6. But if I roll a 4, 4, and 6, my total is 8, the sum of the two 4s.
What I want to find out is the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the possible totals given N dice. How might I create a simple script to compute this?
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posted by j0hnpaul
on Nov 30, 2012 -
24 answers
I'm building a Javascript application that will do cool things with JSON data dumped from a client's Wordpress. It's working great except for parts that are in this PHP-style serialized data that I can't figure out how to deal with in Javascript. Can someone recommend a good method for this?
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posted by steinsaltz
on Nov 5, 2012 -
9 answers
I want to make an awesome web resource, but have hit a wall on the technical side of it and need to know what to ask for. I want to make an image with a slider that reveals and hides different triggerable pop-ups depending on where you move the slider.
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posted by history is a weapon
on Mar 29, 2012 -
25 answers
Can anyone help me make sense of the javascript/jQuery (and black magic?) behind the category list in the portfolio of this Wordpress theme?
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posted by This_Will_Be_Good
on Jan 10, 2012 -
11 answers
Looking for books and articles on programming, design patterns, information architecture, and whatever else. Clear information on Things To Do and Things To Avoid, with a smattering of theory and opinion, would be great.
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posted by jsturgill
on Aug 23, 2011 -
5 answers
I've built two HTML validated pages with the same content, but they're hosted in different places and are displaying differently in different browsers. Help?
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posted by andihazelwood
on Aug 3, 2011 -
5 answers
Which programming languages are best suited to creating a timetabling application?
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posted by bister
on Jun 26, 2011 -
16 answers
I'm looking for a (mostly) pre-made sortable, editable table script that hooks into a mySQL database.
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posted by omnipotentq
on Jun 6, 2011 -
8 answers
Desktop developer seeks your favorite tutorials, links, books, to learn up on web development.
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posted by Tomorrowful
on May 31, 2011 -
9 answers
Via Javascript or PHP, I want to fetch the page source of an external URL. The catch: the URL is another php file.
file_get_contents and
curl don't work, and neither, seemingly, does anything else I try. Help?
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posted by hiteleven
on May 27, 2011 -
6 answers
How can I force the back button to remember an AJAX/Javascript state (preferably using JQuery)?
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posted by gramcracker
on Mar 21, 2011 -
3 answers
I need to slap together a website FAST that contains a map and a (sortable? filterable?) list of Wisconsin-related protest/rally events. I'd really, really like it if people could enter their own events and they'd show up on the map without a lot of intervention on my part.
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posted by desjardins
on Mar 10, 2011 -
11 answers
How can I make Google Analytics + event tracking work from without a webapp-as-native-application on the iPhone? I think it doesn't report a domain.
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posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Apr 27, 2010 -
2 answers
I want to create a simple but dynamic Bible-reading web app from the ground up. I have very little web design and development experience. Where do I begin?
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posted by joshrholloway
on Apr 22, 2010 -
4 answers
I'm building a website in which part of the page remains static, and part of the page is swapped out using server side includes. Is there a way to do this that doesn't make the page jump up to the top when a link is clicked?
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posted by Phire
on Mar 13, 2010 -
10 answers
Where can I find a Javascript or PHP library that can generate cardiovascular risk scores based on Framingham or other established models?
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posted by greatgefilte
on Jan 7, 2010 -
1 answer
PHP / Javascript question - Lightbox (and Greybox, for that matter) doesn't seem to want to play nicely with my "include" function.
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posted by Phire
on Jul 13, 2009 -
10 answers
What is the best way to include the same content on multiple web pages? (e.g. SSI, PHP, Javascript...)
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posted by Fluffy654
on Aug 30, 2008 -
9 answers
CSS, JQuery, PHP and Caching: What are the best practices for creating dynamic CSS with JQuery and PHP? Examples inside.
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posted by odinsdream
on Aug 20, 2008 -
7 answers
Help me AJAX-ify a very simple web process in PHP. Links to very simple AJAX tutorials much appreciated.
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posted by odinsdream
on Jan 8, 2008 -
7 answers
I run a small forum where I would like to offer a "ticker" - as seen
here,
here,
here and
here - locally on my website. Where can I find this script to do this?
posted by cajo
on Oct 4, 2007 -
6 answers
Without access to PHP, MySQL, or any other fancy server-side stuff I still need to have dynamic pages. What are my options?
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posted by genial
on Sep 12, 2007 -
11 answers
Any general reason why php and javascript web apps would fail in Internet Explorer and yet work correctly in Safari and Firefox? (isset($_SESSION), $form->value, etc.)
posted by four panels
on Jun 28, 2007 -
4 answers
I'm looking for a simple Ajax commenting script that will allow commenters on a blog-like site to submit comments without actually leaving the page. I've found the one for Wordpress - but it seems to be a little too specialised for WP templates to be easily adaptable for my site's needs (though I will if I have to). Any links would be much appreciated.
posted by Dag Maggot
on Apr 20, 2006 -
5 answers
PHP/AJAX: Say I have a form with 3 SELECT's - country, state/province, city. I'm looking for a something that will update the SELECT's from the server using AJAX if possible, but will also degrade to the non-AJAX version for people that have JavaScript disabled. Can anyone recommend a PHP library that can do that?
posted by Sharcho
on Mar 17, 2006 -
7 answers
Half way through a form, a user decides that they'd like to add a category to a selection list. How can I facilitate this without also losing everything they've typed into the form so far?
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posted by handee
on Aug 24, 2005 -
17 answers
Windows Explorer has an option to display all the image files in a folder in "filmstrip" mode, which looks like
this. I want to create a similar method of display on a web page. I figure I'll have to (unfortunately) use frames to create the bottom gallery of thumbnails and have it scroll like that but I would rather not have to create a separate page for each full-size picture. I would rather the page displaying the picture be dynamic and just change the picture rather than refer the browser to a different file. I figure this could be done with some scripting language (PHP?) but I don't know much about that sort of thing. Can anyone help me out? [+]
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posted by DyRE
on Jan 26, 2005 -
14 answers
