July 2009

"Accelerated C++" Ch. 5

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This chapter covered iterators, list containers, and new functions for strings, vectors, and lists.

As before, I’m just going to post an unordered list of definitions, jargon, types and functions, etc.

How to Add Twitter to a Drupal Site

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I installed the Twitter module today, and was thoughtful enough to create a photo album of instructions for any Googler that stumbles upon this page. Album captions explain everything.

It is very cool to have posts on Twitter and Pztrick.com automatically syndicating one another.

One tip not noted in the photo album: The default behavior is for all tweets, even those tweets announcing posts on your Drupal site, to be displayed in the Twitter block. This is redundant and perhaps undesirable.

"Accelerated C++" Ch. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

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Gee, it is a lot of work to transfer my book notes from paper page to digital internet, but it does help me to understand and recall everything better. I won’t be summarizing everything as I had with the Python book(before I returned it to the MSU library at the end of spring, anyway), and everything is much more chaotic.

Anki Flash Cards

Anki is this great “spaced repetition” flash card program that I found a few hours before my portuguese final this spring — no doubt procrastinating actual studying by surfing the net. In a nutshell, it intelligently schedules flash cards for you according to how well you know them / and how recently you last saw the card.

"Accelerated C++" by Koenig & Moo

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Before the end of spring semester, I purchased this book on learning C++, Accelerated C++. From what the authors have stated, this book teaches C++ using “advanced” library methods from the start, as opposed to teaching the logical progression of operators, built-in functions, and thereby essentially how to write your own library methods.