The Python Programming Language
In December, I made a blog post about being happy. A anonymous (of course) commenter said:
Hey Rob. 5 months? Are you really this
shortsighted?...
0 replies - 2678 views - 06/02/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles
I'm not even interested in psychology. But. This kind of thing seems to come up once in a great while.
You're asked (or "forced") to work with...
2 replies - 3542 views - 06/01/12 by Steven Lott in Articles
Typically multiplying two n-digit numbers require n2
multiplications. That is actually how we, humans, multiply numbers.
Let’s take a look of an example...
0 replies - 3191 views - 05/20/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
No, it’s not Knuth’s “The Art of Programming”.
I’m talking about quite an easy-to-read (compared to TAoP) book, which,
in fact, does not...
0 replies - 10483 views - 05/18/12 by Grigory Javadyan in Articles
Language, Tools, Chickens, Eggs, Java and Python
Too much of programming is intimately tied up with the tools to support the development of the...
0 replies - 3507 views - 05/11/12 by Steven Lott in Articles
Each natural number that is divisible only by 1 and itself is prime.
Prime numbers appear to be more interesting to humans than other
numbers. Why is that...
0 replies - 6990 views - 05/09/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
Bringing a programmer in for an interview and a coding test can lead
to some interesting experiences, both for the interviewer and the
interviewee. Most...
7 replies - 17572 views - 05/02/12 by Brian Kelly in Articles
Read this Computerworld posting: Should the CIO know how to code?
The answer is "Yes."
The examples of "well-functioning non-technical...
2 replies - 6555 views - 05/02/12 by Steven Lott in Articles
Do you know what day of the week was the day you were born? Monday or
maybe Saturday? Well, perhaps you know that. Everybody knows the day
he’s born on,...
3 replies - 8557 views - 04/24/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
Have you ever asked yourself which algorithm is used to find a
word after clicking Ctrl+F and typing something? Well I guess you know
the answer from the...
0 replies - 10289 views - 04/17/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
We saw that neither brute force string searching nor Rabin-Karp string searching
are effective. However in order to improve some algorithm, first we
need...
0 replies - 9615 views - 04/11/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
A student in my Python Fundamentals class asked me to demonstrate
how to get started with Jython.
I've never used Jython and I'm not a Java programmer...
0 replies - 3992 views - 04/06/12 by Simeon Franklin in Articles
Brute force string matching
is a very basic sub-string matching algorithm, but it’s good for
some reasons. For example it doesn’t require preprocessing...
0 replies - 8657 views - 04/03/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
String matching is something crucial for database development and
text processing software. Fortunately, every modern programming language
and library is...
0 replies - 7611 views - 03/27/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
Radix sort is an elegant and fast integer-sorting algorithm as
explained in the following cheatsheet. Please click on the image bellow
to download the...
0 replies - 5518 views - 03/21/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
