Posted by: devinmoore | April 2, 2007

Ask me computer questions “live”!

cartoon of me in front of a computer

Here is a random computer answer generator. Some of the suggestions are helpful, some ridiculous, but all are humorous. Feel free to suggest more items I need to add. Rejoice, you can send users here and I will answer their tech questions endlessly!

http://www.devinmoore.com/askme.php

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Hi
We come across a lot many contrls which have following capability.
when we type a the control enlists all the words starting with a
when we type ab the control enlists all the words starting with ab
when we type abc the control enlists all the words starting with abc
etc.
As we keep on typing the control enlists all the words that
closely matches the typed letters.

in programming world what is the term to describe this chracterstic.

what are the algorithms / techniques used to give such a capability

That’s called auto complete, it’s done by searching a dictionary and returning all words that start with abc… to the list after a few seconds (so that it doesn’t try to query the dictionary too much and crash).

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