I’m a C language fanatic. It’s my language of choice, primarily because I have books and online courses about teaching C, as well as the Unofficial C For Dummies companion website. It’s good to keep up my knowledge, but like many programmers, I yearn to know another tongue.
(more…)
January 18, 2018I’m Trying to Learn Python
Comments Off on I’m Trying to Learn Python
September 14, 2017Another Title, But Not ReallyI do most of my programming stuff on my C For Dummies website, but I thought I’d relate my recent self-publishing efforts here on Wambooli. The TL;DR version: You can now self-publish print books as well as eBooks on Kindle.
Comments Off on Another Title, But Not Really
October 12, 2012I Remember Assembly Language, Part IIAssembly language runs fast. Assembly language produces small programs. But Assembly language takes nearly forever to write. That’s because you pretty much have to do everything from scratch. October 10, 2012I Remember Assembly Language, Part I Way, way back when I got my first computer — A TRS-80 Model III — I was poor. Yep, I worked part time in a restaurant, so I could afford only the basic computer. No disk drive. No printer. No nothing. Just 16K of RAM, plus a cassette recorder on which I could save and load programs. July 2, 2010Your Future Programming CareerThe computer industry isn’t dead, it’s just that the target machines are getting much smaller. April 21, 2010The Binary Side Of -1 + 1 = 0Welcome to a nerdy blog post on how computers deal with negative numbers. I don’t mean numbers with a bad attitude, but rather numbers like -1, -4, and on down to -∞.
Comments Off on The Binary Side Of -1 + 1 = 0
October 10, 2008What is Zero, Anyway?Oh, the fun folly of the land of mathematical puzzles. I love it. I don’t consider myself to be good at math, but I enjoy reading books on math, and looking at the various mathematic theories and postulations, such as π, √-1, and e. But when it comes to computer programming, a key question deals with the value of zero. March 17, 2008Bit, Nybble, ByteContinuing with my byte-madness from last Friday’s blog entry, how about some more computer storage terms? But this time I delve into the utterly trivial, useless, and fun. |