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Let’s make the heap explode!

Posted on December 5, 2014 by

This blog entry is dedicated to those who teach computer science at high schools and vocational schools. In one of my Java programming classes, only few of the students showed up. It didn’t seem to make sense to continue with … Continue reading →

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Floating Point Representation

Posted on November 1, 2014 by

Back in the days when I was in middle school, I started to develop a strong preference for “nice” and “short” numbers, such as 0.1. One likely reason was that any math problem in school was designed to yield a … Continue reading →

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Regular Expressions

Posted on October 28, 2013 by

At the very beginning of this post I’d like to point out that this is neither related to a specific programming language nor related to a specific operating system, although I’ll need to employ some “real-world” examples for better understanding. … Continue reading →

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Pointers and References – Part 4 (Hacker Stuff) ;)

Posted on July 2, 2013 by

Ok, guys … party’s over. Some of you have requested some more in-depth stuff on pointers, so here we go: Function Pointer Arrays. Depending on your previous programming experience, Function Pointer Arrays (FPA) may seem a bit nerdy to you. … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Object Oriented Programming (2)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

Long time no see. I hope you still remember my recent posting on object-oriented programming. Here is part two, which I hope you are interested in. Today, we are going to have a look at inheritance. If you do not … Continue reading →

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Subroutines, Functions, Methods

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

Most, if not all, programming languages allow you to create subroutines, functions, or methods, all of which follow the same principle. You can think of them as black-boxes that contain source code to perform a specific task. For example, you … Continue reading →

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Swapping Variables

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

Many algorithms, including the world-famous Euclidean, require to swap the values of two variables. So you probably know the following principle. int x = 8; int y = 123; int tmp = x; x = y; y = tmp; However, … Continue reading →

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