The official /pr/ classroom sticky. FoRM ## Mod ## 09/11/30(Mon)16:45 No. 6612 [Reply] [Last 50 posts]

I've been reading through the recent thread about collaboratively learning a language, and it piques my interest. It gave me the idea to organize this shit to actually help /pr/ learn a new language.

Basically, people post assignments in this thread for the language we're trying to learn. Those assignments will be coded in a file called answer(question number).txt, uploaded here. Once the answer to a given assignment is confirmed correct, the assignment will be officially CLOSED and all other answers to the assignment after its closing (identified by a post by me indicating the assignment is closed) will be deleted.

Follow me so far?

For example, Assignment #1 is to display the words Hello, World. You would then post answer1.txt with the correct code and if it was verified correct I would post about it.

----THREAD RULES----
#1 - This thread is a no-troll zone. All completely off-topic posts will be deleted and may result in a ban.
#2 - DO NOT post your code in the Message section of the post. All answers go in the accompanying .txt file.
#3 - Names/tripcodes are urged in this thread to clear up any confusion.
#4 - The language we are going to be doing assignments in is C. That was the overall consensus I got. If you disagree with this and want to do another language, don't worry, other languages will be included in this later on.
#5 - Remember, we are learning a language here. Hints and tips on the assignment post are allowed and encouraged. Also, no extreme-difficulty assignments allowed. I'll be in charge of what is okay and what is not okay.

Anonymous 10/09/02(Thu)11:42 No. 9687 [Reply]

Halp /pr/.

I'm not a good programmer, but am forced to pull out some code, as the dorm network just got updated. Good bye fixed IPs, welcome DHCP that must DHC every 4 hours. This kills my SSH, and and any streaming that happens to be under way at the moment. It's generally a big pain in the ass.
Now, I've noticed, if I am like a haw waiting the time out and relogin precisely when it happens, I can keep my downloads.

So, I figure I use some crude shell script to fire wget, using its capability to --post-data, repeating madly around the time the connection is supposed to time out.

This is the part that should refresh my interwebs.

It doesn't work.

My current lead is, that https://auth.kotinet.fi:8001 should be replaced with something like https://auth.kotinet.fi:8001/auth.php -url to the script to which the html form is submitted. In the source code of the login page, there is no url to any script, just action="", so it must be defaulted at the httpd.conf or what ever ISS calls its equivalent.

How could I obtain the name of the default script? google doesn't find anything (as its not mentioned in the login page source, it isn't visited by the google crawler either).

So, my last straw: is there any widely used names for the cgi-program?

Magic the gathering Anonymous 10/09/02(Thu)01:07 No. 9683 [Reply]

I realize this is pro, I have posted here helping people before. But I need math help and don't know where else to go, and don't know where to begin working it out for myself, so please hear me out.
So there is a shuffled deck of 60 cards.
Within it are 4 of card A and 4 of card B.
Scenario 1:
I draw 7 cards. What are the chances of seeing 1 or more of card A AND 1 or more card B.
Then, if I only have 1 or more A OR 1 or more B I draw another card. What are the chances of it being B if I already had A OR A if I already had B?
Scenario 2.
I draw 7 cards, get either 1 or more A OR 1 or more B or neither. Shuffle the cards back in and draw 6 cards then follow as in Scenario 1.

Anonymous 10/08/27(Fri)13:33 No. 9626 [Reply]

hey, oldfag here.
nice to see that the classroom sticky still exists.

anyway, /i/ is long gone and i need to /r/.
metasploit express

figured this would be the most appropriate board for it.

Bourne Shell Anonymous 10/09/01(Wed)17:18 No. 9682 [Reply]

So I'm attempting to learn shell scripting, and I was advised to start out with Bourne Shell, then going to bash. Looking for a good resource if anyone knows any

OS Anonymous 10/08/26(Thu)07:21 No. 9614 [Reply]

Hello /pr/ I dont know if this is the right place to ask this but I require assistance writing my own OS. I need someone who is proficient in C++. I also have some other projects that I also need help on

Anonymous 10/08/29(Sun)11:30 No. 9653 [Reply]

Just sharing my simple public domain PHP script for dumping images, since xChan doesn't seem to support 7chan's "4 images per post" feature.

It doesn't have HTTPS support though :( If someone knows how to fix that, that'd be awesome

Also if someone's bored enough to port it to Python and share it, that would be a nice bonus as well, since I've been meaning to learn Python and I find looking at other people's code is the best way.

Anonymous 10/09/01(Wed)09:58 No. 9674 [Reply]

question here, what is a good mobile c ide, like if I wanted to program on a school computer so that I could run it off my usb drive. Is there a way to configure Dev-C++ to run off a usb or is there one for this purpose

Victor 10/08/27(Fri)20:34 No. 9633 [Reply]

Python is a easy language. It can do in 1 line what takes C++ 3 or 4 lines to do. Why isn't it more widely used in the gaming industry?

Is it a reluctance to change? Or something else?

Anonymous 10/08/08(Sun)16:35 No. 9413 [Reply]

OK... semi-stupid question.

Let's say I wrote, as an academic exercise, a program to generate random bits. An electronic coin flipper.

Thanks to the magic of binary you can make this a random number generator by collecting buckets of random bits.

Now, if the underlying algorithm I used to generate those random bits is flawed, then the bits are nonrandom, and thus anything derived from them (such as say, a password generator) is nonrandom.

This got me to thinking... a lot of research makes use of randomly generated numbers and random number generators.

How the hell do you verify a RNG is working correctly? I mean, obviously, you can't be 100% certain, but how does one reasonably assure themselves a data set is sufficiently random?

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