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Month: November, 2009

You Must Do Code Review And Do It Right

Our company started code review about one and half years ago. It is one of the smarted decisions we have made. It significantly improves the code quality and helps programmers learn from each other. Do code review, unless there is only one programmer in your company or you don’t care about code quality. I just [...]

Peking University’s New Tactic Will Not Work In Reality

(Picture is drawn by Xiaomo Tao. It is from www.jyb.cn) In China, since 1977 the college entrance exam has been the only way for universities to select students. Although it is just a 3-day exam once every year, it significantly affects tens of millions of people’s lives. I’m not exaggerating at all. 10.2 million students took [...]

Write Parallel Gomoku AI Programs With The Branch & Bound Pattern

In today’s lecture, we learned the Branch & Bound Pattern. The main idea of this pattern is to explore huge search spaces with multiple threads/processes while applying bounding or pruning strategies to control the size of the search space. This is a very interesting pattern. It reminds me some fun time in high school. When [...]