what are some good books for logical problems and algorithm. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:05 PM, <[email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > wrote:
> Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/google-code/topics > > - off topic. <#12862e23be0a17c8_group_thread_0> [5 Updates] > - Question about this group's code of > conduct<#12862e23be0a17c8_group_thread_1>[2 Updates] > > Topic: off > topic.<http://groups.google.com/group/google-code/t/dbefdb2df98f4027> > > sourabh mukherjee <[email protected]> May 03 06:01PM +0530 > ^<#12862e23be0a17c8_digest_top> > > Hi Jaspreet, > > This is Sourabh Mukherjee,working for Oracle. To get a good grasp on > SQL,go > for Introduction to SQL. voume 1 and volume2. > Read the book with its practice lessons.You can download it from > www.4shared.com. just type SQL in search tab and you will get the > e-books > > Best of luck. > Regards, > Sourabh Mukherjee > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > > > Jacob Lyles <[email protected]> May 03 10:47AM -0700 > ^<#12862e23be0a17c8_digest_top> > > I learned a lot from a project in school when I made something similar > to what I described. I collected data from a set of wireless sensor > nodes and wrote it to a port on my web host. The data looks like this > "1, 2113". The first byte tells me whether the door to the room is > open or closed, and the last four bytes tell me the room number. On > the web host machine, I set up a simple multi-threaded server socket > listener to collect the data, check that it is the right format, and > write it to a SQL database. This taught me about Unix sockets and > pthreads. I wanted other people to be able to administer my web host, > so this taught me about Unix permissions. > > Since I was storing information in a SQL database, I had to create the > tables in the database and learn how to connect and write to it > programmatically. This taught me about SQL. I used the information > about whether a door was open or closed to dynamically update a > listing on a website that I wrote with Django. Installing Apache with > Django taught me some more about Unix permissions and Unix system > administration. And of course I learned a lot about web programming > with Django. > > There are lots of other projects that you can take on as well. Another > school project that taught me a lot about Unix system programming was > a benchmarking project. We benchmarked pretty much every piece of the > operating system with C (found the size of the processor caches > programmatically, tested raw disk reading and writing speed, file > cache size, network transfer speed, thread and process overhead, and > etc. ). Basically we replicated the Imbench suite. You can find the > project description here: > http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi09/cse221/project.html/. I pretty > much learned about every Unix system call there is from this project. > > If you use your imagination, you can think of many more. > > I recommend taking on a project if you want to really learn something > to use in the future. At the end, you will have a nice piece of work > that you can show to other people. Reading a book is the easy way out, > and you are probably just going to forget it all quickly if you don't > have a chance to use it. If you already know some stuff and want to > become an expert, then books are a good way to go. But you have to use > it to truly know it. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > > > Christian Bernini <[email protected]> May 03 01:59PM -0300 > ^<#12862e23be0a17c8_digest_top> > > I don't want to sound like the villain, but I don't think that > suggesting > illegal copies of copyrighted material is a good thing to do, even more > when > you work at the company that produced it. > > Here's the Oracle Online Documentation Library: > http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/portal.all_books#index-SQL > > I'd suggest to taste it on w3schools, they have a pretty > straight-forward > tutorial for beginners, or hit the Head First series if you can handle > the > learn-and-have-some-fun pace they live with (which I just happen to > love). I > read Learning SQL, and if was just fine for me. But I'm not a DBA, just > wanted to get sharp on it. So I'd rather let the pro's speak. > > > > <http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/portal.all_books#index-SQL> > > > -- > Christian Bernini > Developer > Linux counter #462673 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > > > Lev Neiman <[email protected]> May 03 05:09PM -0400 > ^<#12862e23be0a17c8_digest_top> > > i personally used google.com for my source of learning materials. > - Lev. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > > > Luke Pebody <[email protected]> May 03 10:18PM +0100 > ^<#12862e23be0a17c8_digest_top> > > +1 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > > Topic: Question about this group's code of > conduct<http://groups.google.com/group/google-code/t/2f4c864e25b5b760> > > r_debashis <[email protected]> May 03 05:33AM -0700 > ^<#12862e23be0a17c8_digest_top> > > Thanks to both Paul and Bartholomew for clarifications and apologies > for not having noticed the earlier post on this. > > Mr. Jacob Lyles, > Regarding your statement: > > "In general, if your company can't recruit properly because it sucks, > that doesn't give you the right to invade unrelated message groups > and > spam your job postings." > > One general observation is that being nasty about any person or any > company does not make you or your company (if any) any better. > > Thanks, > Debashis > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > > > Lev Neiman <[email protected]> May 03 01:36PM -0400 > ^<#12862e23be0a17c8_digest_top> > > Don't be butt hurt. You could use linked-in or monster.com or just > troll > some other random mail list or forum for recruits. Also you could > probably > try making a good programming quiz for your interviewees so you can > weed out > the tards. > - Lev. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. 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