topics.md

Possible topics

Please add your topics at the end of the table, and assign a new number so that the topics keep their numbering.

This is a first provisional list without any ranking.

• * means: draft was written
• ! means: draft was moved to the production repo (an old version may still be in this repo)

Topics

nr	added	topic
000*	cft	Kleene star
001*	ml	Halting problem
002!	mv	Camel Case
003*	mv	Divide and Conquer
004	mv	Leetspeak
005*	mv	How to count
006	mv	Tabs vs Spaces
007*	mv	What is null?
008	mv	How to format plain text
009	mv	Coding is Creative
010!	mv	Hash functions
011	mv	Search for the exception
012	mv	Make things generic (overlap with topic #83)
013!	mv	Exclusive OR
014	mv	Set vs Bag
015	mv	Stack vs Heap
016	mv	Difference between a process and a thread
017	mv	Context Switching is Costly
018	mv	Loss of significance
019*	mv	The Turing Machine
020	mv	Quick Sort
021	mv	Merge Sort
022	mv	Deterministic and Non-deterministic Algorithms
023!	mv	The more FLOPS the better
024	mv	Atomic Operation
025!	mv	Why we all hate Bugs!
026	mv	Debugging
027	mv	Why Indexes speed-up things
028	mv	Machine Language vs. Programming Language (And Compiling)
029*	mv	Recursion
030*	mv	Big O Notation
031*	mv	Greedy Algorithm
032*	mv	Deadlock
033!	mv	Brute force
034	mv	Separation of concerns
035	mv	Syntactic sugar
036	mv	Moore's Law
037	mv	Scalability
038*	mv	Turing Test
039*	mv	Binary & Hexadecimal
040	mv	Functional Programming vs Imperative programming
041	mv	Endian
042	mv	Escape sequence
043	mv	Polymorphism
044	mv	Lambda calculus
045	mv	Middleware
046*	mv	Overflow
047*	mv	Game of Life
048	mv	Play in a Sandbox
049	mv	Fuzzy Logic
050*	mv	Hello world
051	mv	Gaussian pyramid
052!	mv	Diff
053	mv	Zombie Process
054	mv	Unit test
055*	mv	Turing completeness
056	mv	Random Seed
057	mv	Tuple
058*	mv	Mutex
059	mv	Backbone
060!	mv	Handshaking
061	mv	Multiplexer
062	mv	Shell
063*	mv	Reverse engineering
064	mv	Parity bit
065*	mv	Information hiding
066	cft	Mythical Man Month
067	mv	Hungarian notation
068	mv	Agile Manifesto
069	mv	Kernel panic
070	mv	Interrupt
071	mv	Metadata
072	mv	A matter of style: Coding conventions
073	mv	Regular expressions
074	mv	How to specify dates: Unix Time Stamp
075	mv	Trojan Horse
076*	mv	Always use a Version Control System (VCS)
077	mv	Cloud
078	mv	Choose the proper level of abstraction
079*	mv	Fork
080	mv	Writing good documentation
081	mv	Pair programming
082	mv	Script kiddie
083!	mv	Being lazy is a good thing
084	mv	The Noble prize of Computer Science: The Turing Award
085	mv	A Accumulator is not always a rechargeable battery and ALU is not always a metal
086*	slp	Year 2038 Problem
087	fat	Kernel Trick
088	fat	There is no such thing as a free lunch (Free Lunch Theorem)
089	fat	Keep it simple, stupid (KISS)
090	fat	Bias-Variance Tradeoff
091*	fat	Bayes Theorem: Updating Prior Beliefs With Data
092	fat	Premature Optimization is the Root of all Evil
093*	slp	Rice's Theorem - Or Why There Is No Perfect Anti-Virus
094	fat	The Curse of Dimensionality
095	cft	GOTO considered harmful
096	cft	little endian vs big endian
097	cft	Metcalfe's law
098	fat	Complexity of Algorithms: Should we care about the best, worst or average case?
099	fat	Embarrassingly Parallel Problems
100	fat	Errors propagate, or why you should sometimes care about that tiny inaccuracy.
101	fat	Waterfalls are dangerous. (Software Development)
102	mv	Sheffer stroke
103	slp	How big is Big Data?
104*	omn	Monte carlo methods
105*	omn	Livelock
106	omn	What's an Operating System?
107	nb	P vs. NP (Complexity Classes)
108*	mz	Recursion vs Iteration
109*	rd	World of triangles
110*	slp	Speculative Execution - Guess Fast Or Wait!
111*	sd	Binary counting
112!	cft	Machines within Machines (compiler)
113*	ml	Lisp
114*	slp	Why Uptime Matters
115*	rd	When use if
116*	rd	esoteric programming languages
117*	rd	Why it is good to always use the same example
118*	mv	State machine
119*	ts	Supervised Learning
120*	omn	Random variables
121!	cft	Quine
122*	rd	ASCII
123*	omn	Dynamic programming
124*	mz	Counting systems
125*	sd	Euler path

Quotes

nr	Author (year)	Quote
Q000	Vladimir Vapnik (1998)	"When solving a problem of interest, do not solve a more general problem as an intermediate step. Try to get the answer that you really need but not a more general one."
Q001	John Naisbitt	"We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge."