After 5 articles, concerning Java I decided that it is time to write one for the VBA – the language which many programmers do not consider such, and yet it is powerful tool, if you are an Excel or Access …
This trivial task was given at the SoftUni exam for Java. There are not a lot of problems that I can solve, but this one was definitely one of them 🙂 So, what is the input and what is the output? At …
As you have probably noticed, this is probably my 5th or article, concerning Java Exam problems from the SoftUni. Today, I will take a deeper look into a problem, which is supposed to calculate the best sum of triangles. The …
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After a week or so, I have started to master Java, as a part of the courses at the SoftUni. Today, I tried to resolve one of the problems, given about 3 weeks ago at the exam – CountBeers. The …
Last Sunday I was taking part in Basic Java Exam at the SoftUni. I managed to get 130 points (out of 400) and thus to be somewhere in top 50% of the participants. I had 100 points at this problem, …
As I have already mentioned in this article, I have had a small fiasco at the Java Exam of the SoftUni. Anyway, I managed to pass the exam, so actually if I manage to graduate in my certificate Java would …
We all know that any fancy environment (and by “any” I mean only Visual Studio and Eclipse) has a shortcut for quick formatting. This was bugging me a little, because MS Office does not have one and I had to …
Today, I was participating in my first Java Exam at the Software University! It was definitely NOT a success, as far as I had huge problems installing Eclipse and I was actually not able to run it properly before entering …
This week I have finally bought a smart phone 😀 Thus, I will start reading the book “Learning Android Intents”, so you can expect its review in two or three weeks!
As you probably know, I am an online student at the Software University in Bulgaria, Sofia. This week, we had to submit a simple game in Java, developed by me and 4 other online students as a team. After some …
If you have some experience with VBA, you already have enjoyed the usefulness of the immediate window – it simply does anything! Anyway, when you try to enter a subroutine, a method or a function, declared in class, you receive …
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As I have already written in this article, the free MZ Tools add-in is a must for any VBA developer (or skilled secretary, as I have heard quite a lot). Anyway, in this article I will simply show how to …
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Today I have learned that someone (most probably an engineer from MicroSoft) has tought of putting in VBA! Thus, making it really a fully functional programming language. Quite good! Long story short – what are collections? Collection is a built-in class …
Hi there, if you ever need a quick renamer of files in forlders – that is the VBA code you may use: Option Explicit Sub ChangeNames() Dim fso As New filesystemobject Dim fol As Object Dim fil As Object Dim …
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In the last 3 weeks I have read the Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook and I was quite satisfied with the experience. Click on the book to go to its site in packtpub.com So, what this book has to offer to a …
Three weeks ago I have started to read an outstanding book for the Google API. So far I have finished it and this is the third review of code I have done, based on the book. The previous two concern …
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Three weeks ago I have started to read an outstanding book for the Google API. Currently, I have read about 70% of it and I have found plenty of useful code to present. Here is the book: In the current …
Some time ago I have started to read an outstanding book for the Google API. Currently, I have read only 40% of it, but still there are some really interesting pieces of code, which I want to present in my …
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As mentioned in the previous two articles, here (Biggest Triple) and here (Fruit Market) I have participated in one competition for C# basic programmers. So, in this article I will present the 3rd exam problem, which I have managed to …
As I have mentioned here, I have participated in a competition for C# programmers. The second problem was concerning something quite standard – finding the biggest triple from a line of numbers. With other words, one get as an input the …
On the 14.04.2014 I have applied for the SoftUni – a Software University in Sofia, Bulgaria. There were 5 C# problems and I managed to resolve completely 3 of them, thus gaining 300 points and being ranked in 278 place …
Sometimes, you may see something that seems rather easy to be achieved, you have a vision in your mind regarding it and it still takes 5 times more time and patience to get it. Today, after taking a look at …
The binary operations problems are probably the ones, that can easily make a student to quit with programming tasks. They are somehow too abstract and the fun they bring is really doubtful. Anyway, in contests for programming so far, I …
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Looking into some programming task is sometimes challenging. You may think that the answer is quite simple, but actually someone has decided to make you sweat. In this task you should read one line from the console and print the sum …
C# – Taking only numbers from array and working with them – (The Horror) Read more »
In the current article I present an interesting problem, concerning conversion of text array to integer array. The casting of values in arrays has always been a problem for people without much experience and with the current text I will …
On the mood to find some solutions for old C# programming contests, I have decided to take a look at a quite simple problem and to give it a try again. I wanted to come up with a solution using List<int> …
C# – Simple Counter of Values in Array – Miss Cat 2011 Read more »
Today I have decided to take a look at some new C# contest problems, for C# level 1 of the Telerik Academy. I thought that this would be rather easy for me, as far as I have successfully passed the …
C# – “Painting” with the console – Kaspichania Boats Read more »
The dictionaries in C# are quite interesting feature. For a person, coming from the VBA world ( 🙂 ), this feature is quite interesting and new. A lot has been said in the internet about dictionaries, so I will not try …
In this article I will present some good and worthy examples about the usage of Lists in C#.Net. There are quite a lot good articles for lists and their usage, this one will try to summarize their examples and and …
In this post I will simply show a few VBA tricks, for defining last used cell in a row (or column) and defining the size of the worksheet. Let’s assume that you wish to delete all the contents from a …
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