Archive for March, 2008

Data Crow

Data CrowHomepage | Download (18.8 MB)
Version: 3.2
License: GPL3
Rating: 6 stars

Chances are, that somewhere in your house, you have a tall stack of music CDs. Perhaps not one, but two, or three, or even more, stacked up all over the place. Maybe you also have a shelf full of DVDs, as well, and a pile of video games next to your game console. Like most people, you probably aren’t very organized, either, and more often than not, you can’t remember which titles you have, much less find them all. And then, maybe, you lend out items from your collection to some of your friends. Can you always remember to whom it was that you gave what? If this is an accurate depiction of your life, then Data Crow is for you.

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Posted by Mark Keller on March 26th, 2008 No Comments

GNU Hello

GNU HelloHomepage | Download (422 KB)
Version: 2.3
License: GPL3
Rating: 4 stars

It has long been a tradition to begin programming books with a simple program that prints the words “Hello, World!” to the screen. Among those who write programming books, at least.

Brian Kernighan seems to have been the history-making person who wrote the very first ‘hello’ program. His original masterpiece appeared in a Bell Labs Tech Report, entitled The Programming Language B, in 1973. He later went on to co-write the first book on the C programming language (which was given the very clever title The C Programming Language), which included another such program, and things took off from there.

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Posted by Mark Keller on March 24th, 2008 No Comments