Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post.
Closed 5 years ago.
Improve this question
If I wanted to create a small program, perhaps a calculator or something, what language would I use, and how would I implement it?
Very new to coding, especially with websites so sorry if it's a dumb question.
This is a very vague question with so few specifics that it could really be answered 1,000 different ways.
To get you started with your reading though, I would suggest you read up on the differences between server-side and client-side coding languages for the web. That will help you understand what languages you would want to use and for what reasons.
As a general rule though, most people would likely build a simple app like a calculator in javascript, as it doesn't require a lot of interaction with the server, doesn't utilize any data storage, and would run on the users machine rather than tie up resources on your server.
Happy learning, and if you want a lot of responses on this site, you should include more specifics in your questions. Such a broad question is very hard to answer with any sort of brevity.
You can start with HTML, CSS and Javascript. www.w3schools.com is a good source to learn HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Related
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post.
Closed 7 years ago.
Improve this question
I know there is no clear answer to this question. I still wonder to know whether Reading open source code can improve myself rapidly? how and why?
ps：I keep reading open source code every day for months.
Well, many of the bigger open source projects are collaborations between many people: Thus you do have a chance of finding a project written by good developers, and therefore improve your own coding style. Of course, it all depends if you actually memorise the stuff you read or not - But I guess you wouldn't really read that much code if you didn't.
In my opinion, you can learn the following from well-written projects:
Coding conventions
Solutions to common problems (Of course, this depends heavily on the "type" of the project)
How to document code properly - If multiple people work on something, and the project is well-written, it probably also has a good documentation.
Of course, all of this is opinion-based, so you need to see for yourself.
Possible answers (this is highly subjective)
Because working with someone else's code is more difficult than working with my own code. It forces me to adapt to some else's thinking ("If all I have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail")
Because open-source code is often not written under a deadline, by people who enjoy what they are working at, and can provide high-quality real-world examples
Because open-source code tends to have less of an agenda to push vendor XYZ's proprietary pet technology
Because the world might become a slighly better place, if people wouldn't code for the CPU as their main audience, but a human reader :)
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post.
Closed 5 years ago.
Improve this question
I've been developing a small database for my summer internship and I need to write a manual/documentation for it aimed at both users and developers for future use. Thing is...I have no idea where to start or what information to include. Many people I work with have no idea what databases can do so I need to keep it as simple as possible. The database is implemented in Access and I experimented with the database documenter but I think that is overkill. Is there some kind of documentation standard that I can follow or anything of that nature?
As a starter for ten, I'd have thought that the user documentation should be task orientated.
(i.e: How to achieve 'X'.)
In terms of the developer documentation, defining the meaning of any non-obvious fields in your schemas, how they're used and the relationships between different tables, etc. would be a good start. (I'm presuming your VBA code is well commented, etc.) You may also want to examine the existing "Documenting Visual Basic with Doxygen" question/answer.
Just straightforward english if you are explaining a process.
If you have a series of Macros do a document highlighting to code used in each macro and the order it should be employed. This could aid someone down the line if they are trying to automate the process.
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post.
Closed 7 years ago.
Improve this question
The execution time for the scripts is slower. Although this much in a browser is great.
And, The published web app's load time is highly intolerable, that contained junk ( Probably because the UI is done with UIBuilder and the spaces were taken in unicode characters or whatever ).
Two questions here.
For seamless responsiveness, Is that the script folks wished the complete javascript be loaded and run in the browser and there is nothing we could do about it ?
Any optimizing techniques we should look for.
I have found that hand rolling the html and delivering with HtmlService is significantly quicker than UIService. This obviously depends on your circumstances depending on how confident you are scripting your own validators and onEdit functions. But as a possible optimisation this is where I'd start.
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post.
Closed 7 years ago.
Improve this question
I am involved in a project which is meant to eventually become open-source and have a code contributor community. Is there any "right" way of doing this and what should/can I expect?
Thanks
There's a pretty good book on this topic, Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel, which is available for free online or in dead tree form if you prefer to read it that way. It would be hard to expand much on it in a single answer. Every project will, of course, be different, so I'd recommend reading that book, and then asking more specific questions about your particular project; answers will depend on the language and platform you use, how active an open source community there already is in your area, what your business model is, and many other factors.
I would recommand using Github or Google Project Hosting (subversion/mercurial), and of course use social media network to promote the project helps too.
You can start something like this - http://wxwidgets.org/develop/
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow.
Closed 12 years ago.
Improve this question
I'm trying create my own carbon footprint calculator, but I'm having trouble finding all the proper equations and such online, anyone know of any decent resources?
Wow, that is a huge question. In part because "all the proper equations" really depend on who is doing the asking. I would start here: http://www.withouthotair.com/
This resource is HUGE for this. =)
I think this project sounds very interesting!
If you are familiar with web development, it would be very cool to make this a web-based project, which allows for constant growth and development of the equations. You could even make it so that users of your web site can view the equations you are using, and input their own equations. Maybe you could even consider some sort of mechanism to fold back user equations into the base - or set up multiple different bases for different users of different lifestyles.
I didn't directly answer your question, but I hope these concepts are interesting and useful to you.
-Brian J. Stinar-