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ghostofsparta: Why should I beat that? Am I suppose to be intimidated with the 80million code lines everyone is discouraging me with, you just typify those Nigerians who believes since it took the United States 200 years to attain a perfect quasi democracy, therefore Nigeria must tread through such long years. For your information, there are certain missiles like the Iron Dome and certain TomaHawks whose sophistication is beyond 200 million self-generating ultra-AI oriented code lines.


Who doesn't know?


@bolded^^^: Only useful piece out of everything you wrote


Tell me, is Bill Gates or Kevin Mitnick a mathematician? ofcourse who doesn't know one needs to employ certain levels of arithmetic to represent a problem in programming. And remember when I said it still depends.


No, what about it? I'm sure it won't be different from the rest of the pack in terms of its GUI

ghostofsparta: No, what about it? I'm sure it won't be different from the rest of the pack in terms of its GUI

felxfame: I will advice those going into programming to start with HTML followed by CSS and any other scripting language most especially Javascript because it will open your eyes on what programming is all about.
Believe me you are going to enjoy it.
And please do not learn with outdated ebook.
Use the most recent ones.

lordZOUGA: oh.. couldn't reply sooner, my internet service started acting all weird.

is this part of that rat related problem we talked about? if so, can you post the original problem?

are there no constraints? like highest possible number in each box or highest possible sum of a column?

I was thinking that if selections were column restricted(like you can only select whole columns) then you can use a graph to solve this..

lordZOUGA: in this example, your results are not column restricted. they seem randomly picked. I do not see (5, 8, 1) being in the same column or am I missing the point?

|  3  5  2 |
|  2  9  8 |
|  1  7  3 |

|  3  5  2  9  |
|  2  9  8  4  |
|  1  7  3  8  |
|  8  4  5  3  |

Otuabaroku: How I solved my challenge:
I used BufferedReader and removed the system.out.println(a+ " " + b) statement, since I deliberately included it to check if the data is actually read from the text file. I had three files to test, hence I created multiple thread that accomplished the task concurrently. this obviously required more memory; I added extra memory by doing for example java -XM1024M myclassname. The time it took to test the three test files reduced significantly and I was able to beat the deadline.

Once again thanks a lot Kobojunkie and Prince.

₱®ÌИСΞ:
@WhiZTiM.....sup with d continuation

patin48hrs: channel 190. Am now on nairaland. I want to publicly say that i love you. No matter what people say, the mistake i did can not stop me from loving you. Am sorry to say that i left the campus, but believe me, i love u, no matter what.

ItsModella: you gotta be kidding me..

lordZOUGA: really..? dude? a software for the church? that killed it for me.
you could make a lite version that only has the bare-bones of the software (without the video and other resources)

2buff: Anyone from NL tried EpicWorship yet?
A lot of folks around the world have been using it and are happy with it.
Holla if anyone here uses it.

lordZOUGA: nice algorithm

pak: @poster,
My opinion is this , there is no such thing has a difficult (or intractable) programmatic problem or difficult software.

What we have are usually problems that are large and complex, hence might not be easily solved by a one man team.

Once you know the requirement of a given task, and can break the problem down into simpler sub task and importantly, you are well versed in the language of choice (and also sure the language or platform in question is optimized for tackling such a problem).
You are good to go.

For instance, I might not be able to write an accounting/audit software right now, not because it is difficult but because I do not have the requisite knowledge of accounting processes. What I am saying is that as long as you can break a problem down into algorithms, then you're good to go.

We do not have some kind of software being developed in Nigeria today not because of intelligence but rather because some projects require a long time, large number of people and willing investors. Not just smash and grab. I can't attribute that to being difficult really.


and no 2 on your list is definitely not true.
We forget that, the biggest innovation in IT today are so not because of complexity but rather due to concept. There are some concepts that are not necessarily difficult to implement but are game changers.
PHP took one year to develop and deploy in its first stage and it was done by one (or two) individuals. The latest craze now - node. apparently didn't take that much time from initialization to release.
The selling point for these product was more of the fact that the concept was ground breaking.

I have a dream to work on PHP++ compiler and based on the concept, it shouldn't take more than a year. Its just that right now I do not have enough savings (or sponsorship) to undertake a project that might not fetch me a dime within a year or two.

RuuDie: I've been trying to write an ordinary examination timetabling program for months now. . . I must be the dumbest programmer ever on NL!