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25 Oct, 2008

Recursion, Misunderstood

Posted by: sharjeel In: Programming

My experience with the Electrical Engineers in academics is that they usually view Computer Science in terms of circuits and details of how things work at the most tangible level. One hazard of using this approach in teaching is that many times you end up with some wrong core concepts of Computer Science. They enable [...]

19 Apr, 2008

What Lisp & Assembly instill

Posted by: sharjeel In: Programming

My Assembly Programming Language teacher, Belal Hashmi Sahib said in the first lecture of the course, “Assembly is extremely simple. It is so simple that students don’t expect such simplicity and hence it starts appearing complex to them”. Then he wrote MOV AX, BX on the board, explained it and asked if everyone understood it. [...]

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