Reading assignments

The current reading assignment

Assigned 13 May 2002:
50 rules for effective C++, by Scott Meyers
(These rules are listed in the Table of Contents at an Addison-Wesley web page, but that page is generated dynamically and there does not seem to be a static URL for it. It takes too many mouse clicks to find.)

Previous assignments

• Assigned 29 April 2002: Los Alamos National Laboratory's notes on
  1. algorithms
  2. greedy algorithms
  3. brute force algorithms
  4. the ice cream stands problem
• Assigned 8 April 2002:
  • Sean Shubin, Test First Guidelines
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, Advice on Debugging from Sherlock Holmes.
• Assigned 1 April 2002:
  • Dr Joseph M Newcomer, Optimization: Your Worst Enemy
  • The Jargon File:
    1. Introduction
    2. The Meaning of 'Hack'
    3. Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers
    4. bum
    5. twiddle

Supplemental (optional) readings

• The 1997 C++ Public Review Document (draft standard)
• The Java Language Specification, Second Edition.

Last updated 13 May 2002.