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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Technical Career Navigator Review
In these hard economic times The Technical Career Navigator by Ray Weiss is the perfect book to help you find a job, keep your job and advance your career. The book is written for programmers, hardware engineers, technical managers and [...]
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NumPy Project Euler Problem 4
Project Euler Problem 4 is a bit silly. It’s about palindromic numbers. I could not find an appropriate algorithm, so I just tried something out. It seems to work OK.
1. Create a 3-digit numbers array
We will create an array to [...]
Refactoring Book Review
Refactoring is the process of rewriting software, without changing the way it functions, in order to improve its readability, testability or maintanability. A book has been written on the subject by Martin Fowler. Some of the chapters were written by [...]
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NumPy Project Euler Problem 3
Project Euler Problem 3 seems almost impossible to crack. However, using the right algorithm – Fermat’s factorization method and NumPy, it becomes very easy. The idea is to factor a number N into two numbers c and d.
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2 Beautiful Computer Graphics Books
These Computer Graphics books are beautiful, because they have lots of color plates and figures, hardcover with nice designs. I think you should appreciate these kind of things, otherwise you could just as well hold a stack of paper in [...]
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NumPy Project Euler Problem 2
Project Euler Problem 2 is definitely harder than Problem 1. This one requires reading the Fibonacci numbers Wikipedia article.
I read that the Project Euler problems are some sort of katas. Katas are what martial artist call exercises, preparing you for [...]
3 Great Computer Science Books in My Library
Here are 3 amazing (if a bit old) Computer Science books from my library.
1. TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1
Author
W. Richard Stevens
ISBN-10
0201633469
This is a fantastic textbook about different network protocols. The protocols are illustrated using the output of tcpdump and other utilities. [...]
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NumPy Project Euler Problem 1
Project Euler is a website that lists a number of mathematical problems, which are perfect to be solved with NumPy. Let’s start the new year with Problem 1.
1. Call the arange function
Call the arange function in order to store all [...]
4 Great Physics books I had to read
I made a list of four great introductory level Physics books I needed to read for my Master’s degree. You can see them below.
1. Analytical Mechanics
Authors
Grant R. Fowles and George L. Cassiday
ISBN-10
0030989744
Mechanics was one of the first (if not the [...]
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