I worked for a year in Austria, writing what ended up being a set of code
generator tools for CORBA components. I don't think the larger project has
really stood the test of time, but it was a really interesting and valuable
project to work on at the time. This is an advogato post about the development
process during the early phases of the project.
I wrote this on advogato after realizing that I had been helping my colleagues
at work with a good bit of paper editing and correction. As a native English
speaker, the ability to write fluent English is quite a valuable resource for
nonnative speakers.
This is one of those things I sort of wish I hadn't written, but I did. So it's
here to remind me how little writing about vague generalities helps anyone, when
the real situation involves specifics. Also, specifics go in the journal.
The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD) is an entertaining game that can be
studied mathematically to gain some insight about certain complex systems. I've
worked on it in several separate projects at various levels of sophistication ;
this post is a formulation of the problem and a brief retelling of my
experiments with it.
A ways back now I wrote this tutorial about linked lists, primarily using C and
C++ for examples. I hope it helps you understand more about linked lists !
Before you start reading, you should be able to read and understand C and/or C++
(especially all the pointer notation in these languages), and you should have a
decent knowledge of how pointers work.