Archive for April, 2009

Apr 06 2009

Human Sorting Algorithms Video

Published by Chris Rebert at 9:24 PM

A while back in high school (Menlo School to be precise), myself and some other members of The Neighborhood (the math & comp sci club), suggested we try acting out the various sorting algorithms with humans and videotaping it. Unfortunately, we never were able to make the necessary arrangements to actually carry out the project, [...]

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Apr 04 2009

C in a Nutshell in a Nutshell

Published by Chris Rebert at 2:12 PM

I recently finished reading C in a Nutshell, which I highly recommend as an excellent C reference and tutorial to anyone with programming experience. I previously learned some MS Visual C++ at CyberCamps some years ago, but finding the language a bit clunky, I searched around the web, found Python and have been in love [...]

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Apr 04 2009

F before D, except after C

Published by Chris Rebert at 12:25 PM

A public service announcement to anyone taking the Math 20 series at UCSD: I would strongly advise you to take Math 20F (Linear Algebra) before Math 20D (Differential Equations), despite how that seems alphabetically out of order. Why? Because a few classes into 20D last quarter, my Prof basically said that the current order is weird [...]

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