Little Programming Guides | C, C++, Linux and GDB
10 years ago today, I registered this domain name.
Ten years!!!
Ten years is a big milestone, so I thought I’d take a trip down memory lane.
I registered this domain on 4th February 2005 when I was living in San Jose, California.
I still can’t believe I was lucky enough to get it – even way back then it was hard to get the ultimate in web real estate – a dot com of your first and last name.
To a certain extent, coding is something that you never completely forget. Although you may be a little slower after a break, once the problem-solving part of your brain fires up, you will still have the skills and knowledge to do the things you have always done.
However, coding is also a lot like the knowledge of a foreign language.
This post was also published at O’Reilly Programming – you can read it here.
I read an interesting article today, called Debugging for Beginners, over at O’Reilly Programming.
You all know how much I love GDB (huh? you didn’t? seriously?), so I always like to take a look at different approaches to finding those elusive problems that plague all programmers (even those with decades of experience) from time to time.
Anyhow, I headed on over and was a little bit… disappointed. You see, Brian writes in a wonderful, readable way, about topics that concern all programmers, whatever their background. But, I found that the general focus of his article was less on how to debug (even at a higher, theoretical level), and more about how to make less mistakes.
Here’s a really quick guide to binary numbers, because I use them in other posts and haven’t fully explained myself.
OK. Binary numbers are represented using only 1s and 0s:
01101001
This is the number 105 in binary. Honest.