Friday, January 3, 2014

Begin CS50

"What ultimately matter in this course is not so much where you end up relative to your classmates but where you, in Week 12, end up relative to yourself in Week 0."

Week 0 CS50 4/9/2013 

Friday, December 27, 2013

clarity and efficiency

"Particularly as you are learning about programming, it is much more important to work toward the clarity of the second implementation than the efficiency of the first. Given the speed of modern computers, it is almost always worth sacrificing a few machine cycles to make a program easier to understand."

Programming Abstractions in C++ p.142
Eric S. Roberts
Stanford University