Hi! This blog post is a follow-up to the Rust Workshop that ran on the 16th of August 2022.
This post should cover the same concepts, while also providing links to relevant resources and further reading, where necessary. I will be explaining the concepts in terms of C/C++ and Java, so a general understanding of both is recommended.
If you're studying computer science, I.T., or software engineering the odds are high that you would've used the platform Ed at some point to do programming assessments. But, what you might've not come across are some awesome features that are part of most programming IDEs like autocomplete, IntelliSense, and the ability to use a wide range of languages and tools.
Whilst Ed tries its best to do these things, because of its web-based nature it is severely limited so, I'm going to go through how to set up Visual Studio Code to connect to Ed for all your programming education needs.
Whether or not you've heard of git before you should know that it's a skill that's almost universal when it comes to programming. An essential skill for anyone just getting started to the most skilled of experts, the ultimate headstart for getting your first developer gig or simply for organising your own projects.
Git is a piece of software designed to accomodate the massive amount of changes that occur in projects involving an insane amount of code being changed by many people all at once.
If you've ever done group work you'll have had this problem at some point where two people try to edit the same paragraph and it just ends up as a jumbled mess of randomly placed characters.
Git records everyone's changes line by line, making it easy to see what's been changed, when it's been changed and by whom whilst at the same time making sure your files don't end up like this.
Hi! This blog post is a follow-up to the Introduction to Programming (in Java) workshop that we ran on 10/03/2022. It should cover the same content, in a similar way, including the exercises we provided. Also, here's a link to our original slides for the workshop.
Oh, and if you have any questions while reading this post, don't be afraid to ask on our Discord server!
Entering university for the first time often feels very intimidating to new students, as a third-year I still remember how intimidating my first lessons felt and how difficult it seemed to find new people.
Now with several years behind my back and as an exec of multiple societies, I think I have some helpful tips to share that I wish I knew when entering UTS for the first time.
Earlier this year, I had an interesting conversation with another ProgSoc member about the performance benefits of generics compared to abstract interfaces. So I thought I might as well make my first blog post here about that!
This post mainly applies to compiled languages such as C#, C++, Rust, and possibly Java, however Java appears to use dynamic dispatch significantly more than necessary.
I will be using C# for demonstration, and I'll try to keep it simple and relevant to other languages also.