- How to Create and Call PHP Functions

Perhaps you have learned the basics of writing PHP scripts. But sometimes your code may be long and repetitive. PHP functions are a flexible and easy way to consolidate code. This
- How to Install PHPMailer

Need to send emails from your PHP application? The default mailing system in PHP (mail()) doesn't offer the customization features of PHPMailer, which is the most popular mail
- How to Write PHP Scripts

PHP is a server scripting language used to make web pages interactive. It became widely popular due to its ease of use, interactivity within web pages, and integration with HTML.
- How to Open a PHP File

This wikiHow teaches you how to open and edit a PHP programming file on your Windows or Mac computer. Download and install Notepad++. Notepad++ is a free, Windows-only text editor
- How to Install and Setup Visual Studio Express 2013

Visual Studio Express 2013 supports Visual Basic, C#, and C++. This makes it suitable for a beginner as the software is free to download and install. Follow these simple steps
- How to Become a Freelance Programmer

Freelance software programming and development is a lucrative career that may appeal to you if you want to be fully in charge of your own time and life. It requires a significant
- How to Create a Text Based World With Batch Script

You may have ever wanted to make a game, or at least know how. Text based worlds, large games with all words and ASCII art for pictures were the first games ever, then came the
- How to Implement a Stack Data Structure in C++

A stack is a basic data structure that is commonly used throughout computer science. For example, a stack is utilized by your web browser to remember the last few pages you were
- How to Allocate Dynamic Memory (C++)

For most beginning programmers, the memory needs for the programs they have written have been predetermined before their program runs, such as when declaring the size of an array.
- How to Compile a Java Program

This wikiHow teaches you how to turn your Java source code into an executable app using a local and online compiler. If you're using a computer, the most common way to compile Java
- How to Get Started with the Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a single board computer (SBC) roughly the size of a credit card. It was developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to teach the basics of computer science in
- How to Become a UI Designer

User Interface Design (UI Design) is a crucial subset of User Experience Design that focuses on how users interface with a particular product. UI designers work on constructing
- How to Use Excel VBA Variable Data Types

You will learn to create the different types of Excel VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) Variable Data Types. VBA makes life easy for programmers because it can handle all the
- How to Have a Successful Open Source Project

This wikiHow teaches you how to start and maintain a successful open source project. Aside from working hard and focusing on the end goal, the key to creating a successful open
- How to Compress Data Using Huffman Encoding

Huffman's algorithm is used to compress or encode data. Normally, each character in a text file is stored as eight bits (digits, either 0 or 1) that map to that character using an
- How to Make a Scrolling Marquee in HTML

A scrolling marquee is moving text added to a website, but HTML is no longer commonly used for this feature and is not recommended. The HTML tag for scrolling marquees has been
- How to Practice Hadoop Online

As one of the most powerful open-source programming frameworks, Hadoop is an important tool for anyone hoping to find a big data job. If you want to brush up on your Hadoop skills
- How to Develop an Interest in Coding

In our high-tech society, knowing how to code can land you a great job or come in handy as a hobby. But writing lines of code can sound intimidating or even boring. Thinking of
- How to Program

Ever wanted to program but just didn't know how to go about it? Programming can range from easy to very difficult, depending on what you want to do or what languages you want to
- How to Write a C++ Program That Determines if a Word Is a Palindrome or Not

These instructions will guide you in writing a computer program in C++ that will tell the user if a particular word is a palindrome (a word that reads the same backward as it does