The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive multi-volume monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming...
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Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves...
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Donald Knuth (category Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford)
multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and...
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In computer programming, a function (also procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram) is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined...
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MIX (abstract machine) (redirect from MIX (computer programming))
hypothetical computer used in Donald Knuth's monograph, The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP). MIX's model number is 1009, which was derived by combining the model...
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MMIX (redirect from MMIX (computer))
of the Alpha architecture). Knuth has said that: "MMIX is a computer intended to illustrate machine-level aspects of programming. In my books The Art...
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Computer art is art in which computers play a role in the production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM...
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A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...
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Nearest neighbor search (redirect from Applications of nearest neighbor search)
set S of points in a space M and a query point q ∈ M, find the closest point in S to q. Donald Knuth in vol. 3 of The Art of Computer Programming (1973)...
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Hash function (redirect from Hash (computer science))
those functions in your own programs. pHash itself is written in C++. Knuth, Donald E. (1975). The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3, Sorting and Searching...
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Fisher–Yates shuffle (category Articles with example Python (programming language) code)
of Computer Programming as "Algorithm P (Shuffling)". Neither Durstenfeld's article nor Knuth's first edition of The Art of Computer Programming acknowledged...
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Assembly language (redirect from Assembler (computer programming))
many programmers. There are still certain computer programming domains in which the use of assembly programming is more common: Writing code for systems...
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The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond is a book about the history and culture of Unix programming from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when...
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(1997). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley. pp. 3–4. ISBN 0-201-89683-4. "Programming with variables"...
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mainframe computers. Later, the development of modern programming languages alongside the advancement of the home computer would greatly widen the scope and...
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also calls bubble sort "the generic bad algorithm". Donald Knuth, in The Art of Computer Programming, concluded that "the bubble sort seems to have...
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formal methods of mathematics. functional programming A programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs–that treats...
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Knuth, Donald Ervin (1997), The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 1 (3rd ed.), Reading...
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"Algorithm P" by D. Knuth in The Art of Computer Programming. Given u and v, independent and uniformly distributed in the closed interval [−1, +1], set...
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Data structure (redirect from Structure (computer science))
The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 1. Addison-Wesley, 3rd edition, 1997, ISBN 978-0201896831 Dinesh Mehta and Sartaj Sahni, Handbook of Data Structures...
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at the Wayback Machine contains tuned implementations of radix sort for most numerical C types (C99) Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume...
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Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) maintains the current rule set for the official implementation...
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in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing...
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The Art of Computer Programming Ellen Ullman - Close to the Machine Ellis Horowitz - Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming...
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Knuth reward check (category Computer-related awards)
discovering errors in his books after he published the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming in 1968. Initially, Knuth sent real, negotiable checks...
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Mem (computing) (category Computer performance)
Therefore the total running time on a modern computer would be roughly the time needed to perform 2×1020 mems." (Donald Knuth, 2011, The Art of Computer Programming...
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Creative coding (redirect from Creative programming)
Creative coding is a type of computer programming in which the goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. It is used to create...
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object-oriented programming, a destructor (sometimes abbreviated dtor) is a method which is invoked mechanically just before the memory of the object is released...
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Coroutine (redirect from Comparison of programming languages (coroutines))
Knuth, Donald Ervin (1997). Fundamental Algorithms (PDF). The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Addison-Wesley. Section 1.4.5: History and...
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Addison-Wesley (category Computer book publishing companies)
the professional IT worker including developers, programmers, managers, system administrators. Classic titles include The Art of Computer Programming...
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