What is an API?

In short, APIs are like hotel desk receptionists – they can’t give you all the exact information, but they can give you data that the programmers decided to make usable by outside developers. In order to do something useful with that data, you have to ask the right questions.

Djikstra's and Bellman-Ford's Shortest Path Algorithms

Let's discuss some path-finding algorithms!

TOTW: Trees

Hi all, this week let's discuss trees: binary search trees, AVL, and heaps/treaps.

TOTW: Objects, Classes, and Functions

Hey everyone! Today, I'd like to introduce classes, objects, and functions in C++.

TOTW: Binary Search

Hi, everyone. Let's talk about binary search algorithms.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of C++ as Compared to Java

The programming language C++ dates back to 1979, when Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish computer scientist, was researching for his Ph.D. thesis. Stroustrup began working on a programming language he called “C with Classes”; as the name implies, it was intended to be an extension of the C language. The initial idea was to add object-oriented programming to the C language, which was then and remains to be a great language for its portability, low-level functionality, and speed. His language, what would later be called C++, added classes, inheritance, function arguments, and type checking in addition to all the features of the C language.