Set the Color for Console using Windows Batch
If you want to change the colour of the font or the background of the console, you can use the command color under the command shell (cmd.exe). The color …
Print Big Characters using Windows Batch Programming
September 13, 2012
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Windows Batch Programming has been in existent for decades, ever since the first MS-DOS. The file extension that ends with *.bat will be interpreted by the DOS line by …
Get String Length using Windows Batch
September 13, 2012
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Under Linux, there is a famous quote: “When there is a shell, there is a way.”, meaning that the Linux SHELL script is very powerful and in fact can …
Batch Programming Revisited, Chess Board Printing
September 11, 2012
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Batch programming has been greatly enhanced in modern operating system e.g. XP or afterwards. It is in fact possible to write complex and useful applications using Windows batch programming. …
Self-executing Anonymous Functions in Javascript
In Javascript, functions are objects. Therefore you can define objects by using functions like the following. function Person(name, age) { this.name = name; this.age = age; } var Jack …
Simple Profiling in Python
September 7, 2012
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Scripting languages are relatively slow compared to native languages e.g. C/C++. Therefore, it is often needed to identify the performance bottlenecks of the code. In , the timeit function …