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This is all you need to know to find out if two strings of your choosing are equal. Below we have created a fake authentication system and use an if statement to see if the user's name will grant them access to a special message. JavaScript Code: <script type="text/javascript"> var username = "Agent006"; if(username == "Agent007") document.write("Welcome special agent 007"); else document.write("Access Denied! "); document.write("<br /><br />Would you like to try again? Display: Access Denied! Would you like to try again?

Welcome special agent 007 Be sure you realize that when you are comparing one string to another, you use two equals operators "==" instead of just one "=". In this case, the English translation of our program would be: "If username is equal to Agent007, then print out a welcome message; otherwise, access is denied. " Let's try it with toLowerCase. Search Free Ebooks for Computer Programming. Nota Bene: The OneNote Blog. Clip to Onenote. OneNote PowerToys. How to Think Like a Computer Scientist. Learning with Python by Allen Downey, Jeff Elkner and Chris Meyers.

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

This book is now available for sale at Lulu.com. Hardcopies are no longer available from Green Tea Press. How to Think... is an introduction to programming using Python, one of the best languages for beginners. How to Think... is a Free Book available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Please send suggestions, corrections and comments about the book to feedback{at}thinkpython{dot}com. Download The book is available in a variety of electronic formats: Precompiled copies of the book are available in PDF and Postscript . Translations Here are some translations of the book into other (natural) languages: Spanish translation by Gregorio Inda.

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Seems some of us can't see a problem without wanting to take a crack at solving it. Does that sound like you? Good. Forge ahead and ponder this month's problem. We'll post a new one every month, and allow a month for you to submit solutions (we may even publish submitted answers, especially if they're correct).

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Easy Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers. Microsoft. Creating a Basic Report in Excel 2010 using Slicers and Publish it to SharePoint - Office Buzz Blog. In previous versions of Excel, one of the most powerful and least understood functions is the Pivot Table and the Pivot Chart.

Creating a Basic Report in Excel 2010 using Slicers and Publish it to SharePoint - Office Buzz Blog

Inside the finance department there usually lurk some very intelligent people who know how and why Pivot's are a good idea, but outside of this environment the knowledge appears to be scarce at best! I recently started delivering a 2 minute overview of Pivot capabilities in Office 2007 to my customers through the Microsoft Buzz Day program which helps train end-users in our enterprise customers and it seemed to go down rather well across industries and across different user groups. Slicers are new to Excel 2010 and basically make this functionality even easier to understand and also add a new slant on this technology.

Having used popular internet shopping sites before, most people are fairly familiar with the process of "refining" a search using taxonomy or categories from the left of the page. Slicers help us do a similar thing in Excel! Scenario: 1. 3.