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Computer Programming Algorithm Theory String Search

07/18/19

What are the main differences between the Knuth-Morris-Pratt and Boyer-Moore search algorithms?

What are the main differences between the Knuth-Morris-Pratt search algorithm and the Boyer-Moore search algorithm? What are the main differences in how they work?

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Computer Programming Theory Fractals

07/18/19

How to program a fractal?

I do not have any experience with programming fractals. Of course I've seen the famous Mandelbrot images and such.Can you provide me with simple algorithms for fractals? Programming language... more

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Computer Programming Theory Complexity Theory Big O

07/18/19

Are there any O(1/n) algorithms?

Are there any O(1/n) algorithms?Or anything else which is less than O(1)?

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Computer Programming Theory Haskell Functor

07/18/19

What does it mean to compose two Functors?

Exercise 5 of the Haskell Typeclassopedia Section 3.2 asks for a proof or counterexample on the statement: *The composition of two Functors is also a Functor.* I thought at first that this was... more

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Computer Programming Computer Engineering Logic Design

07/17/19

What are the three basic logic gates?

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Computer Programming Theory Rest

07/17/19

Why use two step approach to deleting multiple items with REST?

We all know the 'standard' way of deleting a single item via REST is to send a single DELETE request to a URI `example.com/Items/666`. Grand, let's move on to deleting many at once. As we do not... more

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Computer Programming Computer Engineering Logic Design

07/16/19

What is VLSI logic design?

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Computer Programming C# Mvc

07/14/19

What is Entity Framework in MVC?

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Computer Programming Computer Science Computer Engineering

07/13/19

What is Relativity program?

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Computer Programming Theory Complexity Theory

07/13/19

Did you apply computational complexity theory in real life?

I'm taking a course in computational complexity and have so far had an impression that it won't be of much help to a developer. I might be wrong but if you have gone down this path before, could... more

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Computer Programming Computer Science Computer Engineering

07/11/19

Why do businesses need cloud services like AWS & Azure?

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Computer Programming Oop Language Agnostic Interface

07/11/19

Interface vs Base class?

When should I use an interface and when should I use a base class? Should it always be an interface if I don't want to actually define a base implementation of the methods?

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Computer Programming Theory Computation Turing Machines

07/11/19

When is theoretical computer science useful?

In class, we learned about the halting problem, Turing machines, reductions, etc. A lot of classmates are saying these are all abstract and useless concepts, and there's no real point in knowing... more

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Computer Programming Computer Science Computer Engineering

07/10/19

Which cloud certifications are the most valuable for a lucrative career, AWS or Azure?

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Computer Programming Math Computer Science Function

07/09/19

Is finding the equivalence of two functions undecidable?

Is it impossible to know if two functions are equivalent? For example, a compiler writer wants to determine if two functions that the developer has written perform the same operation, what methods... more

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Computer Programming Computer Science Theory Definition

07/08/19

What is a Y-combinator?

How do combinators work? What are they good for? Are they useful in procedural languages?

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Computer Programming Computer Science Computer Engineering

07/08/19

What system engineers do?

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Computer Programming Computer Science Theory Computability

07/08/19

What's a Turing machine?

What is a Turing machine and why do people keep mentioning it? My IBM PC is all I need to do my computation! Why does anyone care about these machines?

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Computer Programming Computer Science Computer Engineering

07/08/19

What is the difference between Microsoft Visual Studio vs Azure? Which is recommended for working with databases?

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Computer Programming Computer Science Computer Engineering

07/04/19

What is a systems engineer job description?

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Computer Programming Theory Parsing

07/03/19

Why can't a recursive-descent parser handle left recursion?

Could someone please explain to me why recursive-descent parsers can't work with a grammar containing left recursion?

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Computer Programming C# Theory Arrays

07/03/19

How and when to abandon the use of arrays in C#?

Should you try to avoid using an array as much as possible when you will be adding a lot of elements? Should you use iStringMap instead? If so, what happens if you need more than two dimensions AND... more

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