Packed with more than 100 working code examples, Advanced Programming Techniques will teach you new and innovative algorithms and techniques that you can use in nearly any computer programming language. This book includes multiple solutions to the same programming problems allowing you to compare the different solutions and learn the advantages and disadvantages of each programming technique. From this book you will learn how to write simpler, more precise, and more efficient code. The code examples include

• how to simplify code by writing table based solutions
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Are you planning a career in computing? Do you use binary or hexadecimal but want to understand it better? Software developers, network analysts, and computer security analysts are just some of the people who need to really understand binary.

The binary number system (also called base 2) is used by computers to store numbers and to perform arithmetic. A software developer that understands binary will write code that compensates for the limitations a computer has when doing arithmetic. A network analyst will use binary to divide and configure networks with subnet masks. A security...