As a Windows programmer used to code in Delphi, I must admit I wasn’t ready for how strings are handled in C, the language I’m currently learning. To say the least, it was a shock, and I stumbled upon many issues. Among other things, I couldn’t understand how to use characters outside of the English …

In my C application, I wanted to convert a byte (stored as an unsigned char) into a hexadecimal string. To do so, I wrote the following code: 1char hex[2]; 2unsigned char byte = 10; 3sprintf(hex, "%02X", byte); However, the code produced unreliable results. Moreover, the compiler threw the following warning: …

I’m currently learning C and C++. At the beginning, I wasn’t sure if C++ was merely an extension to C or if they were, despite their shared history, two different languages. A recent issue with the malloc function gave me a deeper insight into this question. As I was working on a C++ project, I wanted to …

I’m currently learning to write GUI applications in C++ with Code::Blocks 20.03 as my IDE. I use wxWidgets 3.0.5 as my GUI library and wxFormBuilder 3.10.1 as my GUI builder. However, I initially encountered an issue for which I wanted to write a blog post. You see, when I built a newly-created wxWidgets project …

I’m currently learning the basics of FPGAs with the Mojo V3 Development Board. In order to follow the tutorials I have stumbled upon, I need two software, the ISE Design Suite 14.7 and the Mojo IDE B1.3.6. The first one is easy to find, but the second one is harder since the software has been superseded by …