Interesting Places On The Web
Links dump, mostly about nifty computer science things. Email me if
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- Learn Git Branching
- Learn how to use the git command-line tool through a handy browser
game!
- The
Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
- This blog post from Ken Shirriff is a wonderful dive into two really cool
topics: traditional Navajo weaving and old computer chips. The finished rug is
so accurate that you can identify the specific generation of chip it
represents!
- Faster than Rust and
C++: the PERFECT hash table
- This video demonstrates the process of improving the performance of a hash
table, with great lessons for anyone looking to explore performance improvement
in their code. Also, inline assembly. ♥
- Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)
- "The preliminary terror, which chokes off most fifth-form boys from
even attempting to learn how to calculate..." starts off this book, which
is an Edwardian era version of accessible educational materials. Combines my
love of Project Gutenberg and of mathematics. Even comes as a raw TeX
version!
- The image you can't
submit to journals anymore
- YouTuber BobbyBroccoli explores the history of an image widely used in
signal processing research, and ends up providing a great discussion of women in
computing.
- explainshell.com
- A website that uses manual page documentation to interactively highlight and
explain the components of shell commands.
- Game Boy Development
Environment - NesHacker
- How to set up a dev environment for creating new games for the Nintendo
Game Boy using a GB-specific assembly langauge. Super cool.
- EAX x86
Register: Meaning and History
- Every time I teach Computer Systems, someone asks me what the register
names mean. This explains it for one class of register, including a note from a designer of the
original 8086 architecture.
- Compiler Explorer
- See how a higher-level language compiles to assembly in real time. It even
has vim keybindings!
-
The Missing Semester of Your CS
Education
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Great intro to all of those funky tools that you hear programmers talk about but
aren't taught in CS courses