i want to clean up my pc and upgrade it. but i want to do this my self, money is too tight right now to pay someone to do it for me. can any one give me some suggestions please.

I am wanting to take IT classes. Can any one please tell me where would be the best place to do that, and what sites I can go to, to help me get started learning as much as I can before I start the classes? Thanl you.

This page contains the best explanation about freeware that I've ever read- Why freeware is free, why people make them, why free software are so good (i.e. function even better than commercial software) and how free software should be treated:

http://www.arachnoid.com/freeware/index.html

Here's an excerpt:

There's an old joke with relevance to this topic. After John Glenn's historic orbital flight, interviewers asked him what he thought as he waited for lift-off. He replied, "I was thinking that the rocket had twenty thousand components, and each was made by the lowest bidder". Commercial software is, by definition, built by the lowest bidder. By contrast, freeware (some if it, anyway) is built by people who actually like what they are doing, and some of them are people the big software corporations could not afford to hire.

Users of freeware must not forget that they didn't pay for the software, and therefore they cannot demand the satisfaction of an imaginary contract between the programmer and themselves. The usual adversarial relationship between a vendor and a consumer simply doesn't exist. I find that users below a certain age never grasp this fact, and invariably it is the youngest users who think they have the right to demand absolutely anything, and who expect satisfaction of any arbitrary whim.

The article is a great read, and a must read in my opinion.

Usually, when I see posts asking for a "beta reader", they're fanfiction authors asking for someone to proofread an unfinished work, generally for any and all of the usual things one proofreads for: spelling, grammar, style, characterization, etc.

Well, I'm looking for an equivalent "beta reader" for a Perl module that I'm working on, with the intent of maybe one day releasing it into the wild on CPAN.

Is there a Perl programmer in the audience who is ready, willing, and able to proofread and come up with constructive criticism for a 450-line module (including stub POD), and possibly help me write more and better POD for it?

Hey everyone,

I have a question for any MOO programmers and/or wizards. I got the WinMOO server and Lambda MOO database, and am running them locally on my Windows machine. I have a few rooms already created. What I am specifically inquiring about is: How do I make it tell the exits of a room? For example, on muds, after a room description and stuff, it tells you which directions you can go. On my moo, since it's brand new, it doesn't say that, therefore players wouldn't know what direction they could go. So how do I make it tell the player the available exits? I am not a moo expert, so any tips, tricks, or hints would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hey all I am attempting to create a guess a number game in C++. I was wondering if the do..while loop I'm using is used appropriately. I've been getting a few compilation errors. I use Dev C++, on Windows.

Here's my source code.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

#include
#include

using namespace std;

int main()
{
int number;
int guess;
int tries;

srand(time(0));
number = rand() % 500 + 1;

tries = 0;
cout << "Welcome to Guess! Guess a number, 1 through 500." << endl;
cout << "You only have 5 tries. Good luck! Begin guessing." << endl;
cin >> guess;
cin.ignore();
do
{
if(guess > number){
cout << "That's too high." << endl;
tries++;
if (guess < number){
cout << "That's too low.");
tries++;
while(guess!=number&&tries<= 5)

if(tries > 5){
cout << "Oops, that was your last try! Game over! The number was" << number << endl;

if(guess==number){
cout << "You got the number in" << tries << "Woo!");
system("pause");
return 0;
}

Hi all,

I am trying to learn C++. I tried making a simple calculator that determines your BMI (body mass index). However, I don't think this is right. Here's the source code.

#include
int weight, height;
int main ()
using namespace std;
{
cout << "Your body mass index, or BMI, can be determined using this calculator. " << endl;
cout << "Please input your height in inches. " << endl;
cin>> height;
cin.ignore();
cout << "Alright, now input your weight, in pounds" << endl;
cin>> weight;
cin.ignore();
return 0;
}
int (calculate)
return weight/height^2*703;
cout << "Thanksfor using the calculator."
cin.get();

Thanks in advance. Any suggestions, code fixes, pointers, etc?

I quickly cobbled together a tool that can be used to visualize the content of the directory its run in. However, my C# is sorely lacking in modifying the code for it to become something like a shell replacement. I invite people to download the code and experiment with it: maybe you can finish what I started.

http://www.wolfsheep.com/uploads/Programming/Assorted/VisualFile_0.1.zip

(cross-posted to relevant areas)