Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performa...
Mojtaba Mehrara, Jeff Hao, Po-Chun Hsu, Scott A. M...
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
Being exposed to well-written code is a valuable experience for students -- especially when the code is larger or more complex than they are currently capable of writing. In addit...
Because of the strong coupling of classes and the proliferation of unneeded class members induced by inheritance, the suggestion to use composition and delegation instead has beco...
— Software programs continue to evolve throughout their lifetime. Maintenance of such evolving programs, including regression testing, is one of the most expensive activities in ...