----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Miguel Cacho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [plug] SIG Proposal: Linux Programmers/Developers Group
> Not only do we need people to write useful code, we need them to write > good code. CORRECT!!! > > I did a _very_**2 brief research about books on how to become a good > programmer and how to write good code and good programs. that is why you have an advantage already if you are a computer science graduate due to the basic foundation of algorithms that you have learned. furthermore, its an advantage also if you know the assembly language due to the clock ticks or cpu cycles spent to your given code even though you use higher languages such as Basic, Pascal, C and others because you already knew how the compiler converted it to the machine language. for example: id rather use binary AND than MOD if the modulus is power of 2 x = y MOD 16 is equal to x = y AND (NOT 16) because AND is around 2 clock ticks while MOD is using DIV operand which is around 80 clock ticks. imagine how fast is your code if it is inside an iterative loop which is doing the main job. there are lots (but not all of course) open-source code that are sucks because of bad coding. fooler. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
