CS 455: Extras

####  ### You will find below, an (increasing) assortment of 'fun'/useful notes/links about programming (and related topics/tidbits).. <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Computing - the 'secret' <a href="docs/ComputingSecretIngredient.pdf">ingredient</a> [of modern revolutions] :) <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###You can 'port' your knowledge of C++ and Java, to MANY other coding env'mts, eg. adafruit's <a href="docs/makecode.pdf">makecode</a> system - more, <a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/makecode">here.</a> <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Very interesting: https://bogdanbocse.com/2016/03/the-museum-of-geeky-me/ <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###OOP - <a href="docs/OOPHmm.pdf">oops?</a> :) <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###<a href="docs/CPPPrimer.pdf">HERE</a> is Stan Lippman's C++ Primer - 5th (latest) edition, 1400 pages! <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Graal: Java->binary: https://www.graalvm.org/ [https://www.graalvm.org/examples/native-image-examples/] <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Unicode fun: https://bytes.usc.edu/~saty/tools/xem/run.html?x=Unicode <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Ocaml: https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/06/ocaml-coding-language <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Cars, ECUs: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/software-eating-car <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Java does have a System.gc() call we can use, but we can't call it to 'force' the JVM to release objects in the heap, it's more like a 'request' [as opposed to C++'s free() or delete] :) You can learn more here: ####• https://www.baeldung.com/java-system-gc ####• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66540/when-does-system-gc-do-something <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###What goes on inside our brains, when we code? ####• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/icse14_fmri.pdf ####• https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ST/research/material/fMRI/index.php ####• https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ST/research/material/fMRI/Tasks.pdf [a useful resource to brush up on Java coding - contains short but complete programs for a bunch of tasks] <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/> ###Gorgeous examples of what coding can create :) https://tylerxhobbs.com/work, https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays <div style="height:1px;border:1px solid black;"/>  <hr class="style1">