Mark, You're googling under the wrong search terms. Dope vectors were developed by the Three Stooges. You need to search for Larry, Curly, and Moe.
On Oct 4, 9:51 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:38 PM, DanH <[email protected]> wrote: > > Background in algorithms??? It's a Programming 101 problem -- anyone > > with a modicum of programming skill should be able to do it. > > You make a few assumptions, in terms of background and experiences, > that may or may not be accurate. > > > It's no > > harder than writing the program to read lines from a file and write > > them to a database -- the only real difficulty is navigating through > > the maze of Java classes you need to do file access. > > The lines of code count is probably somewhat longer. More importantly, > though, the database solution is well-trod ground, with quite a few > samples. "Dope vector" has remarkably few hits on search engines, let > alone any code that can be readily applied in this case. Now, > admittedly, not every occurrence of this pattern may use that term -- > when I used a variant on this approach on the Apple IIe in the late > 1980's, I had not heard of the term. > > Perhaps you would like to contribute, by either augmenting the dope > vector Wikipedia page, or by creating a couple of Java classes for > creating and reading dope vector files, to help make it easier for > people to take advantage of your expertise in this area. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training...At Your Office:http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
