John Lam's Bookmarks Tagged With "programming"
-
Quicksort, Heapsort, Fast Heapsort, and Entropy
http://users.aims.ac.za/~mackay/sorting/sorting.html
-
Rated stars out of 5.
- Details
In asking why Heapsort works using twice the comparisons of Quicksort but in practice works 20% faster and yet both scale N·log·N on average, David Mackay uses entropy to tweak it and devise a simple and clever sort yet even closer to the informat… More
-
-
The Scheme Programming Language
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/projects/scheme/
-
Rated stars out of 5.
- Details
All about Scheme, its many implementations, the documentation in full, resources, friends, mailing lists and news groups, a general rundown and a few links on the future of Scheme, it's delicious reading.
-
-
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
-
Rated stars out of 5.
- Details
Not merely one of my favorite programming books, but one of my favorite books all-time, “sick-pee” is what i imagine a first-time ride on Ecstacy might be like, a headrush of neural connection-making gone wild. No, seriously, it's a good book, end… More
-
Publish or subscribe to John Lam's Bookmarks Tagged With "programming" via RSS and more...


