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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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I wanted to teach programming to a complete novice ( somebody who has a bachelor's degree in arts but never into programming).
I tried to introduce python but the response was something like, " Okay, it prints 1,2,3,.....or yes, it does fibonacci series but what is a use, I can do it easily, or my calculator does it, how is it useful". I tried to sell the grand idea with saying that, "Hey, you see the MS Office you use, it uses the same concept." but it did not work. Simply speaking, I could not create or show anything to appeal the novice into getting interested in programming. I showed the GUI I created using wxpython but was horrified to see that the code I wrote gave the novice nothing but horror.
Can anybody suggest a programming teaching approach or something related to programming or even some easy code that will make the novice believe that programming is cool, easy and fun to learn?
Well, unless you're a natural born math-head, recurring patterns of numbers aren't cool.
There's a reason why the canonical thing to start children off with is either turtle graphics, or games programming: it's at least vaguely concrete, and it is open-ended.
Other things people like to make are websites. Some kind of widget-based website framework might appeal.
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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.
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What open source projects would you recommend as a good place for a starting open source developer? Factors that I think would be important are some obvious ones like well written code and a community that is helpful to newbies. But it might be nice if the code base is such that I can start hacking some small problems without really understanding the details of how everything works.
I'd prefer something that can be developed on Linux using C/C++/Java/Python/Scala.
Trying to pick a project like that will never work because it's not something you're passionate about. What's an open source project that you use daily or enjoy using? Go work with that one.
It really depends on what your interests are as to what project to dive into.
Rationale for a larger project (e.g. Firefox, OpenOffice, etc) is that it has many developers, a well established code base, and many small tasks/bugs to be worked out.
Rationale for a smaller project is that you will become more intimate with the code and application. You will likely get to know other developers on the team and understand the overall concept better. Additionally, your additions to the project may be more noticeable.
sourceforge has a list of projects seeking a new developer. Therer are several for your requested programming languages:
http://sourceforge.net/people/?category_id=1
Apart from developers they have more help requests:
http://sourceforge.net/people/
Pick one you use and like already.