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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
You have to be smart enough to tell it how.

Or you could always pick up and read a book on artificial intelligence....

modified on Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:38 PM

That should help, yes.

Abhinav S wrote:
pick up and read a book

Wash your mouth out with soap! Laugh | :laugh:

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This thesis should make interesting reading.

Steve

nEar_mO wrote:
can you give me an idea on how to start it

Well, I'd start off by sitting down and working out what my detailed requirements are; but I'm funny that way.

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that way?

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nEar_mO wrote:
where to start creating artificial intelligence.

Start with natural intelligence? Big Grin | :-D

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I have a question... is it possible to develop a flight inquiry application using C# only and web services maybe, or I should register to some service in order to connect and read the flight details?

you should register with some service to get the flight details.

how to simple play a video from Csharp in windows form.. but without use of this "Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.dll" i mean without Microsoft DirectX..

i want alternate of this Microsoft DirectX Smile | :)

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i love pRogRamming.

Embedding the Windows Media Player Control in a C# Solution[^]

thanks

.. yes i want this Media Player Big Grin | :-D

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i love pRogRamming.

Following link contains sample application to play video within picture box.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=412010[^]

Jinal Desai

hi guys,

I am looking for ways to study for the exam 70-536 and 70-528. Is there any book that give you chapter based questions and have test questions. Perhaps a workbook or practice book. I am bascialy looking something like Exam-Cram but there isn't any.

Thanks

netJP12L wrote:
70-536 and 70-528

I doubt anybody here knows what that means. If they do, you are lucky. Perhaps you should elaborate.

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Did you see this: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation[^] and TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Web-based Client Development[^]

They have practice exams under preparation materials.

Get a good night's rest, eat a good breakfast...

What is the 70-536 and 70-528? Confused | :confused:

It is exam numbers of Microsoft certification

See following link to find out more.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcts.aspx[^]

Jinal Desai

Following link will be very useful.

http://a2zdotnet.wordpress.com/[^]

It will contain practice test as well.

Jinal Desai

Thanks to all of you guys for suggesting me the resouces to prepare myself for the exams. I would like to thanks especially Jinal Desai, who has provided me such a wonderful resouce that I wouldn't be able to google or find it by myself.

What kind of comments do you add and when?
I'm sometimes wondering if my commenting is sufficient and other times if it's redundant.

For example when I use the same command several times, or when having a loop that only consists of like 3 short commands in total, I feel like I should add a comment, but when I do I feel like it's redundant.

I think a comment is redundant if you can easily grasp the purpose of a section of code in 5 seconds or less. If it gets large, comments should only be used for categorizing/grouping.

What do you think?

Hi,

ahead of a class/method: its purpose and contract, so you know what the class/method represents/does without reading its code

upfront in a method: a macroscopic how (algorithm name, reference) and why (e.g. why a particular way was chosen when there are obvious alternatives, and/or why some alternative was not chosen).

inside a method: hardly any, it should be obvious, mainly by choosing all identifiers carefully, and by keeping method length limited to 50 lines.

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I usually clump things into logical groups, then I toss some comment above that group of code. If it's a simple bit of code, I use a small comment... if it's more complex, I might use a bigger comment. All my methods have comments on them (though some disagree with this practice and only comment public methods). I comment so others will be able to understand the code easily if they come across it later. I also have various practices for how I comment that I've just adopted over time. For example, I typically shove most of the variables at the top of the method and comment that section with:

C#

// Variables.
int x;
Person person;

It's standard for me, so I know when I see that that I can pretty much skip over that section of code. That illustrates another point -- that comments aren't always to describe the code, but have other purposes. In this case, the other purpose is so I know what code to skip over, which speeds up reading the code. For a similar reason, I comment every single property I have. I do this because it avoids an interruption in reading the code... the consistency between each property means there is one less thing my brain has to process when scanning code.

Also, most of the time, you should avoid commenting what the code does and instead comment what the code was made to do. For example, this would be a bad comment:

C#

// Iterates over a list of people and processes each in succession.
foreach(Person p in this.GetPeople())
{
    if(p.Height > Person.AverageHeight)
    {
        tallPeople.Add(p);
    }
    else if(p.Height == Person.AverageHeight)
    {
        averagePeople.Add(p);
    }
    else
    {
        shortPeople.Add(p);
    }
}

A better comment might be:

C#

// Categorize people by their height.
foreach(Person p in this.GetPeople())
{
    if(p.Height > Person.AverageHeight)
    {
        tallPeople.Add(p);
    }
    else if(p.Height == Person.AverageHeight)
    {
        averagePeople.Add(p);
    }
    else
    {
        shortPeople.Add(p);
    }
}

There are other nuances when it comes to commenting code, but you'll develop an intuition for these types of things as time goes on. Whatever system you develop, just follow it consistently.

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I think a few developers assume that someone with no knowledge of the language is going to be reading the code. My thought on that is that you should assume that the person reading your code is capable of doing your job and therefore can be expected to understand non business specific rules. As for anything that is really specific to the business, I totally agree with Luc that you should comment a methods purpose and if a specific method has been chosen, why that method was chosen. Future developers may after all think they know better, tear out your code and break any tests, or worse, live environments.

As for the code itself, well written code using appropriate variable naming and sparing comments on only the most complex of routines should see you through.