Recent content by foolsdelyte

Can any of you recommend a good commercial software package for neural network simulating? Have worked a tad with MATLAB, but would like to explore other options...

I don't know if other people would agree, but I don't think someone new to programming (as you've said you are) can sit down and study one language and say 'I understand about x% of C++' after n months. You should be more concerned with understanding programming concepts rather than syntax. To...

Have to better define simple. If you're talking Hello World simple, half a minute... Learning a language is an ongoing process of picking up syntax to implement concepts.

Hope everything works out. =)

Hey, I just reread your first post where you said you'd be transferring in the fall. Does that mean you won't be able to take any of these courses until next year? If that's the case, you should start learning CMSC 131 and 132 on your own NOW by following the course syllabus (you can always ask...

Looks good. You should start with CMSC 131 if you haven't done any programming. Where are you in math? Level of calculus? If you've had some discrete math you could probably take CMSC 230 as well, but you should talk to your advisor first.

If you want to design hardware, for example, a new microprocessor, network card, or gaming controller, you'll need an extensive background in math and physics. On the other hand, computer graphics is concerned with GUIs, image processing, 3D modelling, etc. To be honest, I don't find graphic...

It's good you're thinking about this, because CS is one of the few majors for which you MUST learn the bulk of your knowledge autonomously. If you're really just starting out, you'll want to become familiar with command line interfaces and an object oriented language like Java. If you decide to...

One change. When it prompts the user to enter 'any key' to exit the program, I mean any number key. A key other than a number will cause a mismatch error.

I still don't understand why you are inputting the item name as a String, when the problem as you described it names items from 1 to 4. The code I've just written is a little less complicated than yours, but it does basically the same thing. I commented most of the lines so you know what's going...

Why are you inputting the item name? It doesn't seem relevant to the problem. Here's one way you could do it: Prompt the user for the number of items, n, sold by one salesperson and use a for loop, from 1 to n, to read in every item cost, each time incrementing the sum by the input value. So...

Concept question for cache memory. Say you have a 16-word associative OR direct-mapped cache with a line size of 2 bytes, and the following code: 0: LDAC 4234 3: STAC 4235 0 and 3 represent memory locations. How would you represent the cache contents after executing the code? What are the...

Is anyone familiar with PDP++? I'm having problems hand selecting one-to-one unit connections between layers in a backprop network. If you've ever used the program, let's talk.

Change the line 'item = input.nextLine();' to 'item = input.next();'.