Category: Computer Science
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Free top quality online classes
Good afternoon everyone! I decided today to take the opportunity to write this post about a new resource I discovered a few month ago and which I have been using ever since then, Coursera. The idea behind Coursera is to provide free online video classes to be accessed by students all over the world at any…
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Why should we use functional programming: a simple example
Good evening, I’m just taking the time to add more content on functional programming. When I talk about this paradigm with programmers who haven’t had the time to work with it, they always tell me that the code is difficult to understand and that it would be difficult to maintain. I would like to show…
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Handling interaction between the Business Layer and the UI with the MVVM design pattern
Hi everyone, I’m taking the time to write this little post because I came across a great design pattern to handle interaction between the Business Layer (BL) and the user interface (UI). This problem usually arises when creating multi-layers application which can be used by different kinds of users. As this blog is mainly dedicated…
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Functional approach to portfolio modeling
Good evening everybody, I’ve been paying attention to portfolio modelling for the past few months. When you tackle such problem, you first try to think about how you could represent a portfolio as an object so that you can dive into your C#/C++/Java code so that you can start making money ASAP. However, you’ll soon…
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Heads up on PHP5 byValue/byReference function parameters
Hi everybody! It’s been quite a long time since I wrote on my blog because I’ve been busy working and engineering several data models and software architecture for a risk management system. During my work, I came back to the first real programming language I actually learnt, PHP, which I intend to use to create…