Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Very good post from Paper Trail:
So why study computer science? The job prospects at the end are usually pretty good - because, if nothing else, you can become a pretty good software developer fairly quickly - but they are unknown. My argument is that the study of computer science is enough of an incentive enough [...]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A recent article written by Dr. Robert B.K. Dewar and Dr. Edmond Schonberg (both from AdaCore Inc.) is generating some discussion on the state of Computer Science (CS) education in the United States. In “Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?“, Dewar and Schonberg claim that U.S. universities are training unqualified and [...]
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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
It was Edsger W. Dijkstra, the famous computer scientist, who wrote these words in his note named “How do we tell truths that might hurt?“. I am sure that many people didn’t like to read them, and [...]
In my previous post I have promised that I would put here some of my technical notes (JFFs). Today I am posting JFF1, which presents a very well-known problem in a non-traditional way. The problem is how to swap the values of two variables without using another temporary one.
I start by presenting the properties involved [...]
That’s true: the last post was exactly 5 months ago, but I’m still alive! A lot of new stuff happened during these 5 months. Two days after writing the last post, I went with my group (Foundations of Programming) to a very nice hotel in Ruddington, where, during two days, each member had to present [...]
In the last post I have presented some historical context about programming and mathematical methodology. If you read it, then you should have an idea when and why programmers started to investigate on mathematical methodology. However, I haven’t mentioned any aspects of mathematical methodology that can help us to improve our programming or mathematical skills.
In [...]
Thursday, December 28, 2006
First of all, welcome to my new blog. Being this my first post, I will present myself, give you some background on what I am doing and explain what are my intentions about this blog. My name is João Fernando Ferreira and I am a research student at the Foundations of Programming research group at [...]
