Software Engineering and Computer Games
By Rudy Rucker
Software Engineering and Computer Games was written with four broad goals:
To teach a lively style of object-oriented software engineering.
To show how to bring a complete program to the level of a commercial release.
To provide a "game engine" framework of linked classes for game development.
To help students create computer games that are interactive, rapidly executing, and visually beautiful.
We have a group of N items (represented by integers from 1 to N), and we know that there is some total order defined for these items. You may assume that no two elements will be equal (for all a, b: a<b or b<a). However, it is expensive to compare two items. Your task is to make a number of comparisons, and then output the sorted order. The cost of determining if a < b is given by the bth integer of element a of costs (space delimited), which is the same as the ath integer of element b. Naturally, you will be judged on the total cost of the comparisons you make before outputting the sorted order. If your order is incorrect, you will receive a 0. Otherwise, your score will be opt/cost, where opt is the best cost anyone has achieved and cost is the total cost of the comparisons you make (so your score for a test case will be between 0 and 1). Your score for the problem will simply be the sum of your scores for the individual test cases.
TFIND
searches for one or more strings (boolean AND) in a text file.
TFIND reports all lines where the string(s) were found (or NOT found
by option).
The search can be limited to a field in a fixed field (i.e. column
oriented) list.
An extended search mode is available, where only letters and digits
are relevant.
Other options:
case sensitive search,
alternative errorlevel with number of hits,
header line with file name, LFN, custom prefix
As all of you know, MATLAB is a powerful engineering language. Because of some limitation, some tasks take very long time to proceed. Also MATLAB is an interpreter not a compiler. For this reason, executing a MATLAB program (m file) is time consuming. For solving this problem, Mathworks provides us C Math Library or in common language, MATLAB API. A developer can employ these APIs to solve engineering problems very fast and easy. This article is about how can use these APIs.
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin Fowler, noticed that despite changes in technology--from Smalltalk to CORBA to Java to .NET--the same basic design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The result is an indispensable handbook of solutions that are applicable to any enterprise application platform
Dr. Dobb s Journal - Issue 402 @ 2007 November
- Smart Compilers BUT SMART ENOUGH ?
- GRID-ENABLING YOUR APPS
- Building Desktop Apps Using Web Technologies
- JavaScript & Aspect-Oriented Programming
- C++ & Reusable Associations
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JavaServer Pages Software and OODB
This tutorial covers Deploying Dynamic Sites Using Page Compilation, JavaServer PagesTM Software and an Object Oriented Database
clearly explains concepts such as introspection, overriding built-ins, extending Perl s object-oriented model, and testing your code for greater stability.
The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a thorough grounding in the General Packet Radio Service – GPRS.The introduction contains a basic review of GSM to ensure that the reader is clear on the main aspects of
circuit switched technology, as this will make the differences and advantages of packet oriented GPRS both more apparent and easier to understand.
