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cdelahousse
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About cdelahousse
http://christian.delahousse.ca
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Comment #47115198
The developer recently had a home tour where you can see this software in use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkzg8sNkm8Y
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Comment #32196379
Min-Max Heaps Think of them as double ended priority queues. O(n) construction with O(lgN) mutations. Both the min and max elements are quick to get O(1). The paper is short and th…
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Comment #28237069
The top of My Todo List ( http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html ), but more specifically, what Graham linked to: The Regrets of Dying ( https://bronnieware.com/regrets-of-the-dying/ …
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Comment #9312964
Oh man. This course brings back so many memories of suffering through this material. But I can't emphasize how important this stuff is to know if you want to know anything signific…
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Comment #9312866
Looking over the second part of the MIT course, I see that a lot of the same material is covered in this free textbook. http://cglab.ca/~michiel/DiscreteStructures/
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Comment #9312831
If some of you feel a bit overwhelmed with the material, you may be well served by watching the first few lecture's of the following playlist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG96…
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Comment #9312796
Learning those topics will not be a waste of time. You'll see them come up time and time again on your path towards more CS topics.
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Comment #9015754
OP here. This textbook is being taught as a second year discrete math course at Carleton University. I found it to be really high quality, and on par with similar sections from the…
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Discrete Structures for Computer Science: Counting, Recursion, and Probability
This textbooks is being taught as a second year discrete math course at Carleton University. I found it to be really high quality, and on par with similar sections from the Rosen o…
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Comment #8912215
Actually, the first class is now Java and C++. Morin isn't teaching Python any more. "Functional" programming is taught in third year (COMP 3007), but you don't get too deep into i…
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Comment #7653825
99% PI is what introduced Kowloon. The show did an amazing job of conveying just how special that place was. It is an great pod cast that captures the majesty of day to day design …
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Comment #7617632
This sounds a lot like a home/urban oriented WWOFing ( http://www.wwoof.net/ ) and a bit like CouchSurfing.
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Comment #7613744
I'm in my last year of Comp-Sci. I started the program as a self taught adult. I can say that very little I've learned in school has been useful for the internships and jobs I've s…
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Comment #4653214
The book was written by Pat Morin, a prof at Carleton University in Canada, because other texts were too expensive. It's used to teach a first undergraduate class in data structure…
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Comment #4651961
The first data structure, the Compact dynamic array, is explained beautifully for an undergraduate audience, in Pat Morin's Open Data Structures open source data structures textboo…
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Comment #4566873
Just remember that Wind and Moblicity are on a different network than Rogers, Telus, Fido and Bell. My experience with Wind is that the reception is my city (Ottawa) is terrible at…
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Comment #3103420
Buddy, you had the balls to take a risk. You fell on your face, but at least you took the risk. You did more good in that failure than most dreamers do in their lives. That willing…
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Comment #3103418
Buddy, you had the balls to take a risk. You fell on your face, but at least you took the risk. You did more good in that failure than most dreamers do in their lives. That willing…
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Comment #3088575
Woops. Pardon me.