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No-syntax Web-programming-IDE (was: Does turtle graphics have the wrong associations?)

...Are any of them integrated with tutorial material and available over the Web, as mine will be? If so, will you tell me the URLs so that I can play with them? ...The purpose of *my* system will be to start with mostly non-programmers and *teach* them algorithm design from examples of tasks they get paid (labor-credits, not $money$) to perform,... more »

By Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t - Nov 22 - 1 new of 1 message

	Math/CompSci Interview Question - Thoughts?
	I was posed the following question in a technical interview for a Software Engineering position by a major multinational NASDAQ company: [Paraphrasing] "You are given an array of 1,000,000 32-bit integers. One int value x occurs 500,001 times or more in the array. Specify an algorithm to determine x."... more » By Andrew Tomazos - Nov 21 - 29 new of 29 messages

	misc/RFC: design of a GUI API
	well, I am idly thinking of things, and starting to consider ideas for how I will approach this. basically, I am considering the issue of how I will approach adding GUI facilities to my x86-interpreter-based world. firstly, the core issues (as I see them): there needs to be a separate protocol and GUI API (I am currently leaning... more » By BGB / cr88192 - Nov 20 - 7 new of 7 messages

	semi-ot: best free source code repository?
	Up to this moment all my experience regarding source code repositories is limited to sourceforge and it hasn't been smooth one. Yet, although I'm considering the idea of at least hosting my newly created pet projects somewhere else, as I don't know what's it like to use other source code repositories then it... more » By Rui Maciel - Nov 20 - 4 new of 4 messages

If you haven't bought any of Knuth's fascicles yet, this is definitely the one to get. Bitwise Tricks & Techniques Binary Decision Diagrams

If you haven't bought any of Knuth's fascicles yet, this is definitely the one to get. "The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 4 Bitwise Tricks & Techniques Binary Decision Diagrams" Fascicle 1 Donald E. Knuth 2009 Describes basic "broadword" operations and an important class of data structures that can make computer programs run dozens - even thousands... more »

By Casey Hawthorne - Nov 19 - 1 new of 1 message

	Artificial intelligence
	At first i posted this on comp.ai, but there wasnt any answers. Im not even sure it was received there, although i was able to see it in my topics list on some news servers (others didnt show it). So i will assume they didnt like it there :) I m not sure that this is right group for that, but i will hope its ok.... more » By pointer - Nov 18 - 21 new of 21 messages

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	Unification Algorithm
	Has anyone tried writing a unification algorithm in Java ? Please share the code if you have.Or is there anywhere I can find it ? I need to build a quick prototype. By Rohit Krishna - Nov 17 - 1 new of 1 message

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Pedagogical examples of parallelism

There are many competing high-level solutions for parallel programming. For example, Cilk-style wait-free work-stealing task deques. The pedagogical example for this style of parallelism might be a parallel quicksort where subsorts are performed in parallel on different parts of the array. What other high-level solutions for parallel programming exist and what... more »

By Jon Harrop - Nov 16 - 1 new of 1 message