What Is a Global Variable? A computer program is, essentially, a list of instructions for a computer to carry out when you run it. However, most programs are complex enough that they outgrow a ...

A random variable is one whose value is unknown or a function that assigns values to each of an experiment’s outcomes. A random variable can be discrete or continuous.

Variable naming convention best practices Which of the various variable naming conventions should you use? It all depends on the programming language. For example, Java demands classes to be in Pascal ...

He is the author of numerous well-known technical books, such as Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, recently published by Prentice Hall, as well as Unix In A Nutshell, Learning the vi ...

Manifest Variable Use Example Manifest and latent variables can be used to measure factors in business that seem hard to assess on their own, such as customer satisfaction.

Example 4.8: Variable Length Holidays This example shows how you can mark vacation periods that last longer than one day on the Gantt chart. This can be done by using the HOLIDUR= option in the CHART ...

This paper presents a realistic chemical-process optimization problem in detail, and notes the fact of its equivalence to the general nonlinear programming problem. The eight equality constraints that ...

This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7). Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...