Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) I have cried reading books, but this is the first one I can remember shedding tears just three pages in. The story…
Rating: ** (2 stars out of 5) This is a short history of maths. By short, I mean really short. Which is unfortunate, because there can be no justice…
Growing up, I used to watch a lot of dubbed Chinese Kung-Fu movies. Mongoose style against the Snake style and so on. I don’t believe they used to…
The simplest way to swap the values of two variables is to have a third variable that can temporarily hold the value of one variable while the other is being copied. This is very easy code, but a small problem is that we have to allocate extra memory. In these days of gigabytes of data,…
I will be posting some code from time to time. Some of these posts are from way back. I could probably rewrite them if I wanted to and perhaps in a different language, but there are bigger fish to fry. But maybe someone may find this useful. So this is the Kruskal’s algorithm which finds…
(This article appeared in “IT Glimpse 2000″, a magazine published by the School of Computer Science, M.G. University, Kottayam, Kerala. Current technology advancements have made some of the statements below obsolete.) One of the most common mistakes that people make about Java is to regard it as just another programming language and then get involved…