Conceptual questions involve programming problems which are not related to program code itself, but with algorithm logic and program architecture.
Questions tagged [conceptual]
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Trouble grasping MIBs with PySNMP
I am fairly new to the SNMP protocol and have only been introduced to it recently in my computer networking course.
I understand how the manager sends Gets, Sets, GetNext, GetBulk and all that, it will catch Traps and such. One thing I don't…

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Reverse number order lowest become highest and highest become lowest?
I have a issue, I am using Facebook Score API. But by default it only sorts scores descending so for example 1000, is higher then 10. But my problem is my scores are based on time, so in my case 10 is better then 1000. And I don't really want to…

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Is it a bad practice to never re-throw exceptions in a program?
I've just read some articles about exceptions and the most part of the examples do this kind of stuff:
try{
conn.close();
} catch(SQLException ex){
logger.error("Cannot close connection");
throw new RuntimeException(ex);
}
While I'm…

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Which UML diagrams may I need to conceptualize background desktop apps?
I'm trying to develop a web-app and some desktop apps, all of these apps communicates via database or socket tcp. These desktop apps are running in background so, there is no use cases and the web-app is only used by remote users.
And, these…

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Concept: Making a search agent
I'm looking for some guidance on how to build a third party search agent for a online marketplace that does not have this functionality.
The online marketplace is pretty oldschool and has a single HTML page with all the products they are selling.
If…

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How is an executable file run on an O/S?
Just a conceptual question. A program file is compiled and linked with required libraries into an exe file. Now this file I understand is machine code, which the processor can understand. What I am curious about is how the OS plays a role. I would…

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Use of concept of modular multiplicative inverse to calculate nCr % MOD
I'm calculating nCr % MOD for large values of n
I'm using the relation (n+1)Cr=(nCr)*(n+1)/(n+1-r)
I have to iterate over a loop for different values of n keeping r constant.
llu fact=1;
/*The loop begins from i>=M+1…

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Modifying html repsonse from a webserver before it reaches the browser using a webserver plugin?
The question is as simple as the title. I have a webapp (I have no clue as to what technology it was built on or what appserver it is running on). However, I do know that this webapp is being served by an Apache Server/ IIS Server / IBM Http Server.…

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Analysis Design Diagrams and Domain Models
As I know analysis design diagrams and domain models are not completely same. Whats the differencies between them?
edit: I want to add to them "conceptual class diagrams" also.

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Advice on specific Web Based 3D Game Development
I'm relatively new to HTML and Javascript, but I'm knee deep in the Udacity interactive 3D course and have gotten my hands dirty with some three.js + WebGL. And I've been able to make and somewhat understand this:
http://goo.gl/UPWKKL
So far.(having…

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Conceptual model vs normalization. ER diagrams EER diagrams
I have a question about those four thing because they confuse me. Whats the difference between conceptual model and normalization ? Also where ER and EER are belongs to Conceptual model or normalization?
Thank you

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Corner and edge detection for operations on the elements of matrices
I lately had to implement a number of function that I had to apply to 2D matrices, for example a sliding window averager.
With each of these things I had to take into account that the operation I was doing was not the same if the element I was…

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Why we use max-flow method to solve maximum bipartite matching?
for example
there is A[0] and A[1] and B[0] and B[1]
LINK(A[0], B[0])
LINK(A[0], B[1])
LINK(A[1], B[0])
The maximum match is (A[0].B[1]) and (A[1],B[0])
but for max-flow finding method that we build a source behind A and sink after B
and the method…

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Conceptual: Collect "synonyms" from a list of "words"
This question is inspired by: Generating a list of repetitions regardless of the order and its accepted answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20336020/1463143
Here, "alphabet" is any set of letters e.g. '012' or 'EDCRFV'
"words" are obtained by doing…

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Understand programmatically a python code without executing it
I am implementing a workflow management system, where the workflow developer overloads a little process function and inherits from a Workflow class. The class offers a method named add_component in order to add a component to the workflow (a…

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