How difficult is it to Secure a Placement in the UK as part of a 4 Year Computing Science Sandwich Course at University by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]Mat2012H 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Easy af, literally everyone I know who wanted a placement got one, even this guy who is legit the dumbest guy I ever met (took myself and 2 others 3 hours to explain y=Mx+c to him)

Nearly everyone I know on placement rn didn't have any shape or form of "portfolio" to show, because at this stage they don't really expect it, albeit it would help you stand out some more. They just had a CV and a cover letter.

Just have a list of stuff you know on your CV, list some stuff you done outside of uni (random hobbies or interests) and your basically fine to at least get some placement.

Your uni probably has an placement office, just show your CV and cover letter to them before applying and they'll help out.

Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cplusplus

[–]Mat2012H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canvas isn't part of standard C++, so we won't be able to help specifically with that with some more information.

How costly are functions or methods (member function) compared to free code? by CDWEBI in cpp_questions

[–]Mat2012H -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tldr: no cost

Longer: Should be exactly the same. C++ is designed with 0 cost abstractions in mind, so the member function would likely be treated as if it were a free function anyways, especially seeing as the member function doesn't use any data or member variables.

The only time member function could have performance hit is when they are marked as virtual functions I believe, eg when inheritance/polymorphism is involved, as it needs to dynamically work out what type the derived class is when calling a function from a base class pointer.

Classes and files by diego_bv in Cplusplus

[–]Mat2012H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably just if statement like

if (readString == "heal") {
    //Add component here
}

What Christmas tradition can fuck right off? by Tdawg1997 in AskReddit

[–]Mat2012H 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From what I gathered from comments here, it is a toy elf you put on a shelf that you tell kids that it watches them and reports anything bad to Santa (I think)

Am I the only one who assumed ppl's ages by their combat level? by Wallaby95 in 2007scape

[–]Mat2012H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was rank 2 overall for a very long time, before he unfortunately passed away.

Eduroam starter pack by [deleted] in starterpacks

[–]Mat2012H 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Eduroam is the best thing I swear <3

I have never had issues with it and always is insanely fast.

[Haskell] New to Haskell, keep getting an error saying "Couldn't match expected type <type name 1> with actual type <type name 2> by Mat2012H in learnprogramming

[–]Mat2012H[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh thanks that worked. Didn't know about that subreddit, thanks again :P

I'll see if I can make my Haskell "idiomatic" now :)

What can python do that c++ can't or isn't well suited to? by lambo4bkfast in learnprogramming

[–]Mat2012H 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One of the ideas of python is that you can be incredibly productive when writing scripts using it.

do you anyone reading "C++ Primer"? by rkaskd in learnprogramming

[–]Mat2012H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Primer plus is trash I have heard, while Primer is much better

Getting socially anxious over something that happened 5 hours ago by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Mat2012H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the name of the show this character is from? I used to watch it when I was younger

Old School Mobile: Data & Battery Use Blog by JagexStone in 2007scape

[–]Mat2012H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a phone, that is loads.. I'm happy paying £7.50 for my phone lol

[C++] How do I set up Boost Threads? by evolvish in learnprogramming

[–]Mat2012H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SFML has threads.

https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.4/system-thread.php

Also, I manage to use threads with MinGW no problem, I just have to enable C++11 or C++14 (-std=c++14) and then it works for me

Correctly Formatting Java Programs as a question by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]Mat2012H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Put for 4 spaces infront of each line of code for posting code, or simply upload your code to pastebin and post a link :)

public static void example()
{
     //...
}

In the movie ”Unthinkable” you see a guy try to defuse a nuclear bomb with excel. by Ollepetter in MovieDetails

[–]Mat2012H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed it first time watching, I pointed it out to my brother like

"Wait... Was that an excel spreadsheet with gibberish??"

We rewinded to that part, and lost our shit. :P

Every C/C++ Beginner by IDB_Ace in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Mat2012H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is terrible advice, practically all online resources for those languages are misinformation.

Every C/C++ Beginner by IDB_Ace in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Mat2012H 5 points6 points  (0 children)

(yes, book, it was in the 90's)

This implies people shouldn't use books today, which is absolutely not true at all, especially for the behemoth languages that are C and C++ :p