User:Graveca/Topics
Computing topics of interest
Problems[edit]
- Dining philosophers - Classic resource issues
- Coin problem - More optimizing
- Knapsack problem - Optimizing
- Penney's game - Coin tossing
- Pirate game - Sharing gold
- Egg dropping - Find the floor
Solutions[edit]
- Cubic Spline - Cubic
- Linear interpolation - Linear
- Monte Carlo - Guesswork
- Polynomial Interpolation - Polynomial
- Secant method - Converging
- Sieve of Eratosthenes - Finding prime
- Sieve of Atkin - Finding prime again
Praxis[edit]
- Unix_philosophy - UNIX philosophy
- Code smells - Hints of nastiness
- Currying - Argumentative
- Dependency hell - A->B->C->A etc
- Duck typing - If it looks like a duck and quacks, it's a duck
- Sticky bit - Sticky bit
- Isolation handling - Dirty reads from RBDMS
- Comparison of file systems - Features etc
- Lsof - Files
- Iterative development - The development cycle
Languages[edit]
- Java Version History - All the different Java versions
- MATLAB - Another tool for programming
- signal.h - Signals
- APL and A+ - Mathematical programming
People[edit]
- Kenneth Iverson - C
- David Thomas - Software dev