There are times when life’s responsibilities can grow to be too much, and it’s easy to fall victim to feelings of stress, anxiety, and even depression. It can lead people to think about their direction in life and how aimless and overwhelming things can be. It’s not an easy pothole to fall into, as it can take plenty …

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 …

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