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(Updated June 16, 2022) Overview Setting up the development environment for creating C applications is easy. Two significant components are necessary: a compiler and an editor. A compiler is provided with CLion for Windows, and the Mac edition requires you to install the XCode environment. Additional documentation is provided below. The CLion IDE The CLion … Read More “Installing JetBrains CLion and C compiler” »
(Updated September 2, 2024) Overview Setting up the development environment for creating Java applications is easy. Two significant components are necessary: a compiler and an editor. The Java JDK provides the compiler, and the editor is often an integrated development environment (IDE). We recommend using the Azul Zulu Java JDK and the JetBrains IntelliJ CE … Read More “Installing JetBrains IntelliJ and Java JDK FX” »
(Updated October 27, 2021) Overview Pattern matching is a frequent requirement in programming. As a result programmers are often tasked with find the best way to prove that a string matches a specific set of criteria: email address format, password requirements, IP address format (IPv4 and IPv6), and the list goes on an on. The … Read More “An Introduction to Regular Expressions” »
(Updated April 20, 2024) Overview As we have seen, many hardware and software components vie for CPU time. In addition to hardware interrupts when a device needs servicing and software interrupts that perform privileged actions within the OS, signal handling components allow programs to try to intercept some of the kinds of interrupts that may … Read More “Signal Handling” »
(Updated July 26, 2024) Overview The C compiler produces platform-specific executable code, which can also be viewed as assembly language, given the correct set of options provided to the compiler. This can be particularly useful when we want to learn a bit more about what is going on behind the scenes. Maybe we want to: … Read More “Godbolt: Behind the Compiler” »
(Updated September 10, 2021) Overview Using an IDE to build and run programs is typically only done during development. Many developed programs will run on servers without a text or GUI interface of any kind and will write errors and such to log files for review when something goes wrong. Since these programs will often … Read More “IntelliJ: Adding Command Line Arguments” »