{"id":95,"date":"2004-04-08T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T04:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2004-04-08T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T04:38:42","slug":"the-need-for-basic-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"The Need For Basic Computer Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve gushed embarrassingly on this blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/2004\/04\/05.html#a23\">before<\/a> about my admiration for Julian Bucknall. One of the things I always enjoyed about his articles in the Delphi Magazine is that he does a very good job of taking you through the workings of an algorithm without it becoming boring. <\/p>\n<p>In his recent post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/falafelsoft.com\/Flogs\/julian\/archive\/2004\/04\/07\/235.aspx\">need for a better grounding in Computer Science amongst developers<\/a>, he points out some sites that do this visually, using Java applets (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanet.com\/users\/arsen\/avltree.html\">Java Models<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www-igm.univ-mlv.fr\/%7Elecroq\/string\/index.html\">Exact String Matching<\/a>). Very cool. If only I&#8217;d had Julian or these sites available when I was doing my CS degree.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, also just noticed that he mentions he&#8217;s back writing for The Delphi Magazine \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve gushed embarrassingly on this blog before about my admiration for Julian Bucknall. One of the things I always enjoyed about his articles in the Delphi Magazine is that he does a very good job of taking you through the workings of an algorithm without it becoming boring. In his recent post about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}