Nish Tahir

Programming and debugging the MSP430 on Windows is a bit of a straight forward affair. You simply install the Code Composer Studio (CCS) integrated development environment (IDE) and in a few minutes you are ready to go. On Linux systems however, there is a little bit of work involved[1]

We are all familiar with some kind of concept of writing good code[1] and how extremely difficult it is to write in situations where deadlines exist (you don't have time to think things out. So naturally you cut corners and make compromises). Things get a bit more

If you've been programming for a while, you probably already know what it's like putting together large projects. There is usually a lot of pain and confusion involved in downloading libraries, frameworks and modules - We are all familiar with the saying - don't

I recently came across something I never really considered doing in my code- using instance initializers to instantiate collections. This seemed like a good idea at first seeing how there hasn't really been a convenient way of instantiating and initializing collections without having to manually populate the list.

Lately i've been dealing quite a bit with mining unstructured data[1]. This often involved determining the similarity of Strings and blocks of text. One of the more interesting algorithms i came across was the Cosine Similarity algorithm. It's a pretty popular way of quantifying the