The most important guideline when writing code is to separate method implementations with several blank lines and a comment line. Despite modern IDEs’ capabilities for searching and structuring source code, visual orientation still plays an important role.
Consider the example below. There is an implementation of a class in Objective-C …
Time goes by, but the fashion for trashing teachers, universities, and education officials (in our case always just one — the minister) never passes. Like, the first are old farts who read lectures off a sheet of paper from
I’ve had cases like this in my practice: you ask a programmer to make some feature, and he answers, “It’s impossible to make it.” I ask, “Why?” and he replies, “I read such-and-such documentation, looked at such-and-such example, tried doing it this way and that way, and realized …
To live life wisely, there is much one needs to know; For starters, remember two important rules: Better to go hungry than eat just anything, And better to be alone than together with just anyone.
(Translator: O. Rumer)
Last week I was preparing a lecture about the SystemC language and came across an article by Stephen A. Edwards, “The Challenges of Synthesizing Hardware from C-Like Languages,” about various C-like languages used for describing hardware. Among the various languages and tools there was a link to U.S. patent …
On Tuesday (06/23/09), I’ll be giving my talk on system-level design. It will present an overview of the current state of the field, some results from my dissertation, and various ideas.
On the program:
A retrospective of design automation tools (since the 1950s).
Modern approaches to design …
There is good news and bad news.
The bad news is that the party committee of my department has decided that in the 2009/2010 academic year, third-year students will be left without a course on optimization. This is not because the course is difficult or useless to anyone. This …
The previous article about Intel Threading Building Blocks discussed the advantages of this library and also looked at an example of the parallel_for algorithm. Let’s look at an example of using the parallel_reduce algorithm, which differs from the parallel_for function in that it allows partial results obtained in parallel …
In the introductory classes for the optimization course, the students and I discuss a question like “When should you start optimizing?” You can often hear the answer attributed to Donald Knuth: “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
Usually, this phrase (actually taken out of context) is interpreted this …
There are several ways to get programmers to solve assigned tasks at high speed with a minimal number of errors.
The first way is to use high-level languages, for example, C++. Object-oriented programming makes it possible to create entities of various kinds in code, as well as define operations on …