Jack W. Crenshaw wrote the Let's Build a Compiler article series from 1988 - 1995. This document is a formatted version of that excellent non-technical introduction to compiler construction. These web pages were created in 2005, and port Mr. Crenshaw's original Pascal code for the 68000 under SK*OS to the Forth language on a 80x86 CPU, under Windows XP. The text files were downloaded from http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/. They are highly recommended. In this transcript I have assumed a 32-bit, byte-addressing Forth, with 8-bit characters. Division is symmetric, not floored, and two's complement is assumed throughout. iForth works splendidly for it, but other Forths can do it too.
MATLAB® and NumPy/SciPy have a lot in common. But there are many differences. NumPy and SciPy were created to do numerical and scientific computing in the most natural way with Python, not to be MATLAB® clones. This page is intended to be a place to collect wisdom about the differences, mostly for the purpose of helping proficient MATLAB® users become proficient NumPy and SciPy users. NumPyProConPage is another page for curious people who are thinking of adopting Python with NumPy and SciPy instead of MATLAB® and want to see a list of pros and cons.
Just like other online courses I teach, this course is offered online only. For those of you who are not sure what it's like to take this course online, please see What it's like to take Sang Shin's online course. Just to set the expectation correctly, th
What if you were able to discover potential problems in your code prior to building it? Interestingly enough, there are Eclipse plugins for tools such as JDepend and CheckStyle that can help you discover problems before they are manifested in software. In
A Programming Style That Automatically Detects Bugs in C Code by Jerry Jongerius / January 1995. This book describes an alternate class methodology that provides complete data hiding and fault-tolerant run-time type checking of objects in C programs. Wi
This article outlines the process involved in transforming the del.icio.us user API XML document into an HTML fragment. Because the XSLT processor is compiled, and therefore runs significantly faster than interpreted Javascript in the browser, I push as m
This article outlines the process involved in transforming the del.icio.us user API XML document into an HTML fragment. Because the XSLT processor is compiled, and therefore runs significantly faster than interpreted Javascript in the browser, I push as m
Microformats are (officially) a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards that are designed for humans first and machines second. ...Microformats are about using the standards we all know and love to convey as much
Microformats are (officially) a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards that are designed for humans first and machines second. ...Microformats are about using the standards we all know and love to convey as much
A. Heydarnoori, K. Czarnecki, and T. Bartolomei. ECOOP 2009 – Object-Oriented Programming, volume 5653 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2009)