Elegant C

I once was working on some performance analysis and came to the developers asking how their code was consuming a disproportionate amount of ...

The NY Times ran an article at the start of last month on what CS education is required for non-majors, Computer Science for Non-Majors . I...

As I've spent these many years learning and practicing computer science, I've come to have a couple of "rules" (i.e. guide...

I read an argument recently about whether a test for NULL should be: if (ptr) - or - if (ptr != NULL) Do you know that the assembly fo...

Let's start with a mythical program. It has some classes (structs, objects, etc) that are instantiated. Each field has a meaning given...

Starting with a primer of Understanding processing time , let's delve into some methods for how we might measure the performance of soft...

How often do you have to write a loop to read a file? Do you issue fscanf, fread, or perhaps create a stream via some object-oriented langu...