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Programming › Re: Lets Start A Real Web-deveopment Course Here Html+css+javascript+php+mysql by stack1(op): 5:25pm On Jul 23, 2016

If you saved the contents you typed in notepad properly it should save as a webpage, open it with your favorite browser (FF/Chrome/IE//Opera) and you should see a page with the text -This is a paragraph-, and the title of the page/tab should be -My page Title-

Now the part where you typed


 <!DOCTYPE html>

is called a doctype declaration and tells the browser what version of HTML you are using, it should always be the first line of your web-page code
the doctype is written based on the version of HTML you are adhering to.. through out this series we would be using HTML5 and the doctype for that is simply


 <!DOCTYPE html>

Programming › Re: Lets Learn C by stack1(op): 5:12pm On Jul 23, 2016

I recommend downloading codeblocks, its one of the best IDE's (integrated development enviroments for C/C++ and many other languages)

Get the latest binary of codeblocks for windows here https://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks/files/Binaries/16.01/Windows/codeblocks-16.01-setup.exe/download

We are going to be using GCC/Mingw compilers, specifically GCC version 6 which fully supports C11 and C++11/14 and partially C++17 standards

if you are on 32bit windows get this file here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/dongsheng-daily/6.x/gcc-6-win32_6.1.1-20160715.7z/download

and for 64bit systems get this
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/dongsheng-daily/6.x/gcc-6-win64_6.1.1-20160715.7z/download

after downloading unpack the compiler archive to your C directory

Programming › Re: Lets Learn C by stack1(op): 5:00pm On Jul 23, 2016

I do not like writing about programming history and philosophy that much, because they simply are not so informative to beginners, you usually learn the history, philosophies and rationale behind programming languages as you mature in them.

so i'm just going to provide a description from wikipedia

C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations. By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it has found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, including operating systems, as well as various application software for computers ranging from supercomputers to embedded systems.

C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at Bell Labs,[5] and used to re-implement the Unix operating system.[6] It has since become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time,[7][8] with C compilers from various vendors available for the majority of existing computer architectures and operating systems. C has been standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) since 1989 (see ANSI C) and subsequently by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Programming › Re: Lets Learn C by stack1(op): 4:57pm On Jul 23, 2016

I am going to be taking examples from several books in this tutorial series including

C Programming A Modern Approach 2nd Edition by KN King
K&R 2nd edition (Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie)
Beginning C fifth edition -Ivor Horton
C Primer Plus 6th edition - Stephen Prata

so we have hundreds of examples to go through together..

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Programming › Lets Learn C by stack1(op): 4:47pm On Jul 23, 2016

C and C++ are my personal favorite programming language and at least i consider myself intermediate in both, and so lets see if we could start C lessons here on NL. I need interested folks before i start posting lessons.. anyone

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Programming › Re: Lets Start A Real Web-deveopment Course Here Html+css+javascript+php+mysql by stack1(op): 4:41pm On Jul 23, 2016

Ok first post, and it all starts with HTML... now if you read on it means you are interested in building web based applications, i'm no typist sp i'm going to save on keystrokes.

The fundamental of web pages showing up in your browser is the markup language known as HTML- HyperText Markup Language.. note i said markup language and not programming language.

Lets leave the history out HTML is now in version 5 i.e HTML5.. and this versions comes with it interesting features and deprecated some older features.. lets get coding

so first fire up notepad (later we would get to using full fledged IDE's like netbeans e.t.c.), then type this


 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

save as an HTML document to do this in notepad, make sure you set (save as type) to "All files" and put a .html at the end of your file name, you might also need to enclose the file name in "" e.g "firstWebPage.html"

Next post would explain all what you just typed in notepad...
next post would only come after at least two comments...

Programming › Lets Start A Real Web-deveopment Course Here Html+css+javascript+php+mysql by stack1(op): 4:31pm On Jul 23, 2016

Yeah so it just came as an idea i really want to see how far a real (hard-core) web development learning series would go on NL

Phones › Re: Airtel Unlimited Is Back N Better by stack1(m): 11:36am On Jul 22, 2016

Timbuktu14:
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Thank you.

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Phones › Re: Airtel Unlimited Is Back N Better by stack1(m): 12:49am On Jul 20, 2016

How do you check the night data balance on smart-Trybe

Programming › Re: Programmers Help! My Final Project by stack1(m): 12:04am On Jul 17, 2016

You should be looking at the andruino platform

Programming › Re: Hommies Please Review My Android App by stack1(m): 12:02am On Jul 17, 2016

interesting, i'll put testint this on my to do list

Programming › Re: Wordpress Developer/website Designer Needed by stack1(m): 12:01am On Jul 17, 2016

I am not so into wordpress i love coding my stuff from scratch, you could checkout my latest work here www.greenhouze.xyz its a full fledged social platform so if you want to talk 09024753839

Programming › Re: Help Needed Here, Can PHP Be Use To Build An App by stack1(m): 11:58pm On Jul 16, 2016

Do you mean desktop or mobile app, for mobile well i'm not so sure but on the Desktop Windows/*nix yeah php has Bindings for the GTK+ GUI library so can be used to build applications

Programming › Re: Check Out My Python-kivy Game Hosted On Github... by stack1(m): 11:57pm On Jul 16, 2016

Great job, would find time to check, keep it up

Programming › Re: What's Your Favorite Linux Distro by stack1(m): 11:55pm On Jul 16, 2016

CentOS & any day anytime, use it on all my VPS'es if that's not available then Debian wheezy

Programming › Re: Help Me Upload My Ftp Files In Binary Mode Abeg. by stack1(m): 11:54pm On Jul 16, 2016

Binary mode??, are you uploading to your own VPS or dedicated server then you could just tweak you ftp server settings to allow that, and if its a shared host why not compress the file to something like .7z or .tar.gz the upload and decompress on the server, i know most cpanels have features for decompressing files

Programming › Re: Software Testing In Africa - A New Community by stack1(m): 11:51pm On Jul 16, 2016

Tester here, and also looking for testers for my beta social platform www.greenhouze.xyz

Programming › Re: Does AJAX Technology Work On Mobile Phones??? by stack1(m): 11:46pm On Jul 16, 2016

It works an all recent android browsers (Opera mini, Opera mobile, Chrome, Firefox etc, and also on IOS safari and IE for mobile) i use it extensively on my site www.greenhouze.xyz check it on mobile and see (on opera mini the data save mode can sometimes disrupt XMLHttpREquests, since their proxy sits in the middle on the browser and the website being viewed

Programming › Re: I Want To Learn Programming. Which Language Should I Start With? by stack1(m): 11:41pm On Jul 16, 2016

It depends on you target industry if you are looking at working in the varying core/engineering based sectors (OS design, industrial class applictions e.t.c) learn C then C++, others that would help you include (Python, Java, Fortran and definitely learn Linux shell) , if you you are looking at the web learn HTML/CSS/JS a solid server side language my choice is PHP but you could also learn Python, Ruby/Rails, NodeJS, or JavaEE stuff and also learn a SQL , if you dig the budding Machine language/AI fields make sure your math/logic is up to date you could learn Python, R, one of LISP/Prolog, form Gamers Good math background then C/C++, and some assembly

and going off topic, anyone avaivalbe to test out my beta social platform www.greenhouze.xyz cheers

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Webmasters › Re: Who Knows Any Ftp Site I Can Use To Upload File Of More Than 10mb by stack1(m): 11:17pm On Jul 16, 2016

you could try http://drivehq.com/, i use it for incremental ftp backups for several vps'es

Tech Jobs › Re: I Need A Good Website Programmer For A Quick Contract! by stack1(m): 6:21pm On Jul 01, 2016