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Cross-platform Programming: The Details
In the last article, I took a general look at cross-platform programming. From a developer’s point of view, there are a number of ways of programming cross-platform. While maintaining separate source...
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The Ackermann Function in Java: Why Computers are Stupid
I’ve started teaching myself Java, right from the basics and as a guide I’m using the Java version of the How to Think Like a Computer Scientist book. One of the exercises at the end of the fifth...
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Introductory Books for Beginning Programmers
I’ve recently started learning progrmming seriously and so I’ve been on the lookout for good books to learn from. So here’s a short list of books that I’ve found useful. They deal with a variety of...
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IDEs for Beginnning Programmers
One of the greatest problems facing people learning how to program is which set of tools to use. The problem lies in the fact that there are a plethora of different IDEs and toolkits that claim to...
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Design for unit-testing
I’ve written before about the role of testing in programming and as I’ve written more code (and unit tests) over the past few weeks, my conviction that unit-testing is useful for more than just...
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How many programming languages should I learn?
OSNews has started a series called A-Z of programming languages where they’ve been posting interviews with the creators of well-known programming languages. Till now they’ve done AWK, Ada and BASH. Of...
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Scala as an alternative to Java: Part 1
The end of the semester is drawing near and that means that my independent study in programming languages is also coming to its end. This course has helped me learn a lot about programming languages....
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Python Properties vs Java Access Modifiers
This post is part of the Powerful Python series where I talk about features of the Python language that make the programmer’s job easier. The Powerful Python page contains links to more articles as...
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It’s a great time to be a language buff
I make no secret of the fact that I have a very strong interest in programming languages. So I was naturally very interested when news of the Go Programming Language hit the intertubes. Go is an...
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We’ll always have native code
A few days ago my friend Greg Earle pointed me to an article with the provocative title of “Hail the return of native code and the resurgence of C++“. While the article provides a decent survey of the...
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