Updated 6/29/2009 : 09:15pm
I’ve been thinking for some time about the possibility of starting another website. This blog is certainly where I post general goings-on with me and my programming, but I think it would be cool to create a website dedicated to teaching up-and-coming programmers things, categorized in an easy to navigate way. This [...]
I knew that when I started the job search, I would ultimately end up doing a lot of algorithm development in my interviews, so I made an investment in a good dry-erase whiteboard to practice on. I explained to Susanna that, as a programmer, a whiteboard is just as important as the computer or code [...]
Bachelors degree achieved.
In my spare time this weekend, I wrote a maze solving algorithm, which is reminiscent of a program I wrote as homework over a year ago, but slightly better. Its still wasteful in terms of efficient moves, but the improvements can come later. Here’s a snippet of some methods from it, for the curious:
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“U.S. officials say the internet, and specifically social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, are providing the United States with critical information in the face of Iranian authorities banning western journalists from covering political rallies.”
“senior officials say the State Department asked Twitter to refrain for going down for periodic scheduled maintenance at this critical time [...]
I found this today, which some may find useful. It provides prepackaged Eclipse distributions for certain tasks, all ready to go.
http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html