User:Graveca/Topics

Computing topics of interest

Problems

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Java Version History - All the different Java versions
• MATLAB - Another tool for programming
• signal.h - Signals
• APL and A+ - Mathematical programming

People

• Kenneth Iverson - C
• David Thomas - Software dev