Something special about Java.

I am just taking another data structure class.  As it turns out, An assignment of the form

varA = varB; takes the value of varB and copies it into the location in memory given by the address of varA.  This certainly change my thought and this is a rather subtle point. 

How does this work in C?

Some notes on my java implementations

I will undoubtedly rewrite a lot of stuffs in Java during the Data Structure class in the famous extension school.   I would hope to just post the code here because it benefits all other people.  But of course, I also want to avoid the situation where some body suspect I copied my code in the class in case they see this blog.

So my take is this, I will probably just post code when I finish a class.  In any case, that will take some organization anyway.

After finishing the first class

Refreshing.  Though I know that its level is probably not as good as the MIT course, I still feel benefited from the interaction.

The extension course was a basic introduction to simple data structure.  But underneath that, it also teaches Java.  For example, one of the key thing that I learned is how stack frames were represented in the stack and it is nice to see how things were represented neatly in the stack/heap diagram.

The course also taught me Java and I want to take advantages on it.  It is a good idea to keep up with the most popular programming language.

I have great expectation with this relearning process.  There are many course in this famous extension school are very valuable.   For starter, the mobile and web programming courses will be very useful.

My goal though is still trying to work out the whole CLRS.  It is more daunting than 1 to probably up to 3 university class.

Reminder to myself.

Got to master Java or C++ soon.  I hope to fill in my programming requirement for insertion sort.