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