Sorting speed of stl vectors and lists
Posted on Friday, February 12 - 2010 (617 words)
This snippet is an addition to my previous article about sorting STL containers. I’ve tested the sorting speed of std::vector vs. std::list on my MacBook. As we can see by the results below, vectors are much faster than lists when it comes to sorting (almost 8 times faster on my...
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Overkill: java as a first programming language
Posted on Friday, February 12 - 2010 (826 words)
I recently talked to a student in my neighborhood about his first programming experiences. They started learning Java at school and it soon turned out to be horrible. A lot of us learned coding in languages like BASIC or Pascal. There was no object orientation, no sophisticated file I/O and...
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Sorry apple, that ipad sucks!
Posted on Wednesday, January 27 - 2010 (505 words)
When Steve Jobs held it in his hands my first thought was: “That thing is fat and it somehow looks like a giant iPod”. Just like somebody lost his Apple phone on a bus and a million people sat on it. Obviously it looks like we all expected. A black...
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Howto sort a vector or a list in c++ using stl
Posted on Wednesday, January 27 - 2010 (855 words)
A little code snippet that people need very often: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41...
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Web-development with jquery
Posted on Wednesday, November 25 - 2009 (177 words)
I’ve searched for some IDEs to create jQuery code more quickly. Hacking the files into a text-editor (like Textmate) and doing some “real- life” bug testing by simply opening Firefox and running the site is not very handy. So here is a list of alternatives I came up with. It’s...
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