After a relatively lengthy hiatus from this series, I’m going to bring back the Practical Math series, but with two changes. First, in spite of my rather intense predilection for symmetry and order, I’m going to dispense with the stock set of headers to fill out and get a little more free form with these….
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, and I didn’t want to let the series die, so here goes. The “Why This Should Matter to You” Story You’ve probably heard people you work with say thing like, “this is going to run in O of N squared, but mine is going to…
The “Why This Should Matter to You” Story Imagine that you’re on a phone interview and things are going pretty well. You’ve fielded some gotcha trivia about whether such and such code would compile and what default parameters are and whatnot. After explaining the ins and outs of the strategy pattern and recursive methods, you’re…
The “Why This Should Matter to You” Story A few scenarios today: You don’t understand why the answer to “how many bytes are in a kilobyte” isn’t 1000 (at least, not exactly). You see if((x & mask) > 7) and wonder why it compiles despite the author forgetting an ‘&’ You feel a little ashamed…
The “Why This Should Matter to You” Story TL;DR: You read my post about conditional bloopers and thought, “what’s wrong with that?!?” Let’s say that you recall the lesson from last time and you make sure that you also avoid statements like “if(A && (A || B))”. You draw out truth tables whenever you feel…
