What is your favorite essay about programming? Something which has made you think, or made you a better programmer. Something that you feel portrays the field well, or maybe that was just hilarious to read. Some of my choices would be some of Paul Graham's essays, such as Hackers and Painters. The Cathedral and the Bazaar is also up th...
What is the best description of the CPU that can fit in 500 words? Submit and vote up actual attempts. Imagine you're explaining it ... to some non-cs grad students over dinner to the smartest, most interested 12 year old you've ever met to a beginning programmer in a high-level language who knows how to count, add, subtract, and mul...
I've been using LaTeX for a little while now to typeset my algorithms homework, and I really like the quality of the output as well as the ease-of-use. I'd like to starting using LaTeX in other classes as well, but non–computer-science subjects have more stringent formatting requirements than I've come across in CS. Most classes that req...
Ok..I'm working with automatic essay grading for Bahasa(Indonesia Language) now.. I'm just curious with the experts here.. What's the best method use for essay grading? I'm experimenting with Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA)..but if you have another opinion for this or think other method is better, feel free to comment.. Thanks ...
This question is particularly aimed at descriptions and explanations of what is happening in a computer program, as well as any general advice or approaches for undertaking technical reports in Computer Science at both undergraduate and graduate levels. You see, I am having particular difficulty in the best way to explain what is happen...