The way we tell computers what to do, through programming languages, has changed a ton. We’re going to take a look at the ...

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As the nation’s 10th-ranked program by U.S. News & World Report, Purdue’s computer software engineering program in the Department of Computer Science is examining the development and improvement of ...

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This course provides an overview of System Programming for the Linux operating system, or software which is interfacing directly with the Linux Kernel and C library. The basic components of a Linux ...

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This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...

From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...