Good Advice From the Creator of C++

Know the foundations of computer science: algorithms, machine architectures, data structures, etc. Don’t just blindly copy techniques from application to application. Know what you are doing, that it works, and why it works. Don’t think you know what the industry will be in five years time or what you’ll be doing then, so gather a [...]

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How Do You Write Programs So Non-Programmers Can Read Them?

The Setup
In my final semester at TCNJ, I researched cryptographic hash algorithm with a math major. His programming experience was extremely limited: he had only programmed using Matlab, so he knew what functions and variables were, but that was the extent of his knowledge. In school I was a math minor, so we had a [...]

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Working Through the “OO’s Small Classes and Short Methods” Exercise

In "Perfecting OO’s Small Classes and Short Methods ", Andrew Binstock describes the constraints of an Object Oriented exercise by Jeff Bay.
I may be three weeks late on the issue, but I had to wait to find the time to write a project using these restrictions. After all, one experiment is worth a thousand blog [...]

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