Archive for the ‘The basics of…’ Category

Book review of … Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

Monday, December 1st, 2008

'Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering ', by Robert L. Glass. Robert Glass is a man who knows a lot about software engineering, he has written over a dozen books and writes regular columns in programming and computing publications that work towards his, self-confessed, goal of trying to bridge the academic ...

The basics of…Matlab

Monday, November 17th, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo by kennymatic"][/caption] It's important to know the basic features of any language you're programming in.  We don't just mean the syntax or whether the language is dynamically or statically typed (although these are very important); you also need to know what the language is good for, ...

The basics of…pseudocode

Monday, October 20th, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="photo by WorldIslandInfo.com"][/caption] Pseudocode is the code you would write if a computer was as smart as a person. It is a way to capture the logical rigour of programming language, without the messy syntax, but maintaining the flexibility of human language. Pseudocode is therefore a cross ...