Over the summer I was asked if I would do an interview to illustrate what University of Southampton graduates can end up doing. The discussion I had with Karen...
Over the summer I was asked if I would do an interview to illustrate what University of Southampton graduates can end up doing. The discussion I had with Karen was great fun, and the resulting profile seems to have turned out ok. I always find these thing hard. It's one thing writing a technical document, but quite another to collaborate on something more personal. The family joke is that the acknowledgments was the hardest section of my books for me to write. Whilst I'm...
Over the summer I was asked if I would do an interview to illustrate what University of Southampton graduates can end up doing. The discussion I had with Karen was great fun, and the resulting profile...
I've been continuing to look into programming and electronics for kids. I wrote some of the programming options up a while back. Scratch is still a firm...
I've been continuing to look into programming and electronics for kids. I wrote some of the programming options up a while back. Scratch is still a firm favourite.On the list of things to try we have brickcc to try out with the lego NXT. Here's an old comparison of the various approaches to programming the NXT brick.The other on-going project is a microcontroller - the STM Primer. Includes a screen, tilt sensor, and a single button.On the electronics side (which is what lead...
I've been continuing to look into programming and electronics for kids. I wrote some of the programming options up a while back. Scratch is still a firm favourite.On the list of things to try we have...
We spent a bit of time in Dorset on our trip home. Interesting things that we missed seeing giant sea monsters and unexploded bombs.
One of the things I didn't manage to do on our recent vacation in the UK was to visit Greenwich Observatory. This is the "home" of Greenwich Mean Time. The BBC...
One of the things I didn't manage to do on our recent vacation in the UK was to visit Greenwich Observatory. This is the "home" of Greenwich Mean Time. The BBC has a nice article on the history of GMT. Perhaps next time....
One of the things I didn't manage to do on our recent vacation in the UK was to visit Greenwich Observatory. This is the "home" of Greenwich Mean Time. The BBC has a nice article on the history...
I was chatting to one of the kids teachers this morning, apparently she ends up tying shoelaces for a bunch of kids in the class everyday. All of which reminded...
I was chatting to one of the kids teachers this morning, apparently she ends up tying shoelaces for a bunch of kids in the class everyday. All of which reminded me of this alternative way of tying laces.
I was chatting to one of the kids teachers this morning, apparently she ends up tying shoelaces for a bunch of kids in the class everyday. All of which reminded me of this alternative way of...
We've recently returned from a vacation in the UK. We had a fun time, the kids got dragged around all sorts of entertainments. One thing I did manage to squeeze...
We've recently returned from a vacation in the UK. We had a fun time, the kids got dragged around all sorts of entertainments. One thing I did manage to squeeze in was a trip to the Doctor Who exhibition in Coventry. It took us about forty minutes to wander through, and look at the props from the show. It's a temporary show being held at the Coventry Transport Museum, so after lunch we wandered through that. The transport museum had some interesting vehicles - a De Lorean,...
We've recently returned from a vacation in the UK. We had a fun time, the kids got dragged around all sorts of entertainments. One thing I did manage to squeeze in was a trip to the Doctor...
That's a somewhat inflammatory title for this post, but continuing from my previous post on the book Code Complete, I think that the chapters (25 & 26) on...
That's a somewhat inflammatory title for this post, but continuing from my previous post on the book Code Complete, I think that the chapters (25 & 26) on performance really do not contain good advice or good examples.To make this more concrete, consider the example on pg 593 where Steve McConnell compares the performance of these two code fragments:OriginalUnrolledfor i = 1 to 10 a[ i ] = iend fora[ 1 ] = 1a[ 2 ] = 2a[ 3 ] = 3a[ 4 ] = 4a[ 5 ] = 5a[ 6 ] = 6a[ 7 ] = 7a[ 8 ] =...
That's a somewhat inflammatory title for this post, but continuing from my previous post on the book Code Complete, I think that the chapters (25 & 26) on performance really do not contain good advice...
I read Code Complete a couple of years back. It's an interesting book to read, but there were two parts that annoyed me. I was giving a presentation the other...
I read Code Complete a couple of years back. It's an interesting book to read, but there were two parts that annoyed me. I was giving a presentation the other week on "Coding for performance" and I happened to mention the book, and say that I had these two reservations. So I figure I should write them up more formally.My first issue was, basically, me just been a stuck in the mud. Those of you who regularly read my blog will see that I favour the following style of indenting:...
I read Code Complete a couple of years back. It's an interesting book to read, but there were two parts that annoyed me. I was giving a presentation the other week on "Coding for performance" and I...
Today I got the "voter information pamphlet" for the California statewide special election - which is meant to solve the
