Rogue C# – Dungeon Search and Rescue
It’s been a few years since the last report from the Rogue C# project and the dungeon retains its mysteries. Time to dust off the project notes and find what awaits discovery.
Category: Programming
Latest Project: EntityFramework C# Demo with SQLite
As part of my return to C#, I decided to review EntityFramework Core, the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) that makes it so much easier to pass data between your database and a .NET program. After wading through documentation, trying to put the basics together, I decided to do a short video on it as part…
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Parsing web logs and sharpening my C#
It’s been too long I dived back into C# this past week by revisiting one of my old projects – the web log viewer that I used to review the server logs for my website. It had previously been done in the .NET Framework 4.something and I wanted a new version that would handle a…
Parsing HTML with Python
I circled back to working with Python this weekend and learned how to use the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.
Python and SQLite
I’m starting another review of my recently published book, Self-Guided SQL: Build Your SQL Skills with SQLite, looking for anything I might have missed, and one thought I had was adding more material on how to access SQLite from programming environments. A couple of months ago, I uploaded a video on how to create a…
Python Revisited
It seems like, every few years, I get the urge to play around with Python programming. This time, I found myself looking at some of my old BASIC files from back in the day and knew I needed a better challenge so I started reviewing all the Python training materials I’d gathered in my previous…
C# Project Review – Mortgage and Savings Calculations
Several years ago, during my short time as a programming instructor, I came up with an assignment for the students where I asked them to create a financial calculator that would calculate mortgage statistics and savings accumulated with compound interest. Of course, I designed my own version and posted it to Github. While looking over…
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Software Development: A First Assignment
Software development starts with the understanding of a system and its rules. This article provides a first exercise in analyzing a system for the potential developer.
Editing Excel Worksheets with Microsoft Access
It’s actually possible to populate specific cells in an Excel worksheet with information from your Access database. Here’s how you do it.
Rogue C# – Adding Scrolls and Potions
Coming back around to the inventory side of the game, I decided to add some extra variety to the available items, starting with the scrolls and potions.