My dearest VB.NET programmers (and C# programmers up to a point), I once again have to inform you of one of my pet peeves. This is pretty much a follow-up to one of my previous posts, but more than two years after, I still work in projects from various online sources as well as professionally that are littered with the warnings about undefined variables:
| Operation | Sample | C Operator |
|---|---|---|
| AND | 1001 AND 0101 = 0001 | & (ampersand) |
| OR | 1001 OR 0101 = 1101 | | (pipe) |
| NOT | NOT 1001 = 0110 | ~ (tilde) |
| XOR | 1001 XOR 1011 = 0010 | ^ (caret) |
| LEFT-SHIFT | LEFT-SHIFT 0001 BY 1 = 0010 | << |
| RIGHT-SHIFT | RIGHT-SHIFT 1000 BY 1 = 0100 | >> |
| Operation | Syntax | Short For |
|---|---|---|
| AND | X &= Y; |
X = X & Y; |
| OR | X |= Y; |
X = X | Y; |
| XOR | X ^= Y; |
X = X ^ Y; |
| LEFT-SHIFT | X <<= Y; |
X = X << Y; |
| RIGHT-SHIFT | X >>= Y; |
X = X >> Y; |
If you work in a source controlled environment, these are the minimal guidelines that you’ll have to stick to for making your teammates’ lives a bit easier.
Share any tips you may have!
If you ask a programmer which programming language you should learn as your first, they’ll often prescribe you their personal favorite, often not considering if the language is supported on multiple platforms, easy to learn, exposing underlying system mechanics, and fully featured.
This post is the first of a series of tutorials intended to teach you the C programming language, an excellent first language because of the following reasons:
Microsoft confirmed today at the 2011 CES that the next generation of the Windows operating system will indeed run on ARM processors, following wild rumors and speculation this past week.
Windows on ARM processors means that the operating system is now capable of running on a plethora of mobile devices, thus opening up an entirely new market segment for Microsoft. Is this the end of Windows Phone? Will Windows 8 be the new Microsoft mobile OS?
EDIT (01/06): Not much more info was released in last night’s keynote speech by Steve Ballmer. However, the implications of having the full-fledged Windows operating system on a mobile device such as a phone are tremendous. Android and iOS will have to pick up some speed to compete with the OS that has been in the making since 1985 and has excellent hardware and software support e.g.: multi-threading, scheduling, peripheral support, .NET Framework, WPF, Win32 API, etc., etc.