How to Add a Directory to Your Path Environment Variable in Linux

The linux shell is probably the most important thing that provides raw power to the end user. Getting to know more about it is crucial if we seek to be able to do simple and more complicated tasks with its help. The bash shell, which is what 99% of linux users use, contains a certain environment that a user works under.

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How to Use Patch and Diff Commands to Create and Apply Patches

The world of Unix is a place where everything is done the right way, till there is an even “righter” way to do it. For everything that gets coded, there is always something left to be edited. Almost every project in the Linux (or other unix related OS) community is based on patches. There are even quite a lot of patches for the linux kernel itself.

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How to Use The Urllib Python Library to Fetch URL Data and More

I will claim it. If you’re not using Python, you are losing a lot. At that point, i understand that some of you will argue that with saying how nice perl is or how great things work at ruby on rails. Well, get to know all scripting worlds if you like. Then, come back to Python programming.

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How to Backup MySQL Databases Automatically Using Cron

Could you ever imagine a very big company losing important data because of incomplete backups or no backups at all ? If you think that large companies, that earn millions of dollars, backup their data daily or even hourly, then you are wrong. The reality is sad. A quite large portion of those high caliber corporations don’t even create backups and some of them that do, do not do it the right way.

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4. C++ Introduction to Functions

Each C++ program contains at least one function, main(), which signifies the entry point of the program. Think of functions as procedures that execute certain tasks. Functions consist of parameters that actually are auxiliary variables for them. Moreover, they need to return a value, whether that is an integer or a void (meaning no value at all). Whenever we declare a function, its prototype must end with a greek question mark (;)

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Top 10 Things That Computer Programmers Hate

Whatever your job is, there are possibly some things that you hate while doing it. If you happen to be an electrician, spilling water on a circuit might be one of them. The exact same thing happens to programmers as well. The only possible difference between them and any other people is that they over react a bit.

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3. C++ Control Structures

This is a guest post by a good personal friend of mine under the name Black Shadow.

Control structures are a very useful programming idea. They help us execute a certain set of commands if a situation occurs. For instance, if a password that we ask a user to provide is correct, we evaluate it and present the user with a message. There are 3 primary control structures :

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