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Do YOU know how to find a seg fault?? Advice to new programmers [closed]

I have noticed a rash of questions lately that are essentially this: "My code has a segmentation fault. The code compiles, many tests pass, but I can't figure out the problem!" If this is ...
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Pset6 problem in indexes and load function

Check 50 returns a lot of errors https://sandbox.cs50.net/checks/caefd03d8ac2485b820743724297b846 Edit: New check50 https://sandbox.cs50.net/checks/fa32659c01b742b78c18f1568d48b90d My load function ...
Anirudh Thatipelli's user avatar
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How to solve "control may reach end of non void function" error

When I try to compile my code, I get an error message that says "control may reach end of non void function." What does this message mean and how can I avoid this error? Here is the function that's ...
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How to Fix "control may reach end of non-void function" and "No such file or directory" Errors?

When I compile find, I get this error message error: control may reach end of non-void function When I then try to run the program ./find 14 I get this error message bash: ./find: No such file or ...
user1645's user avatar
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Pset3 Binary Search problems

I have tested the code presented in the picture and find this function always returns false no matter what number you search.There must be a problem in it but I can not see it!! Can anyone help me ? ...
Yan Zhang's user avatar
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3 answers
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Pset7 - Forbidden 403. I can't even get started

I have done a ton of research online regarding this problem and have found several similar threads, but none of those solutions are working for me. I saw somebody posted the same question yesterday ...
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Debugging Webserver in C

I have an error in my server.c file for PSET6 but have no idea how to find it. I am trying to use GDB and it does not seem to be very useful. I would love some help learning how to better debug this ...
Maddy Schiappa's user avatar
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Can psets be graded a second time in edX?

I'm taking CS50 through edX. Is it possible to have a pset regraded after it was graded once?
LeeAnna Misterek's user avatar
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How to Wrap Around Array Indexes?

I have the Vigenere encryption portion working properly, but can't seem to figure out how to wrap around argv[1] indexes. My first for loop declared two ints, i and j, and incremented each int with ...
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How long to wait for being graded

How much time does it take to get our psets checked? It's been more than two weeks since I submitted my pset1, yet it hasn't been graded. (I am doing CS50x)
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Not able to access (403 Forbidden) own website: https://ide50-username.cs50.io/ (with my username)

Even the (i) at the top right corner of IDE has disappeared along with the link to the server(or website). I started apache as specified in pset8 with correct permissions etc but am getting 403 ...
Vaibhav Kulshrestha's user avatar
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4 answers
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How to handle the lack of argv[1] in caesar?

I think my program handles lack of argv[1] correctly, yet it fails check50's test. here my code: if ( argc != 2 ) printf ("usage : ./caesar + key \n"); return 1;
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What's wrong with my code for mario?

I've been stuck on pset1 for five months now. I like to do things chronologically and mario has been giving me headaches. Every time I think I have the problem solved, I'm told it's wrong or a lot is ...
user1175's user avatar
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6 answers
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How to Install the Tools for the Course on Ubuntu

As per the question I have had nothing but trouble trying to use the virtual versions of the cs50 software, namely the virtual machine crashes runs slowly or just generally feels like my fingernails ...
user1568's user avatar
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hacker1 - credit - Problems on some card numbers

The logic from hacker1: Multiply every other digit by 2, starting with the number's second-to-last digit, and then add those products' digits together. Add the sum to the sum of the digits that ...
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