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  • Presented by Sean Parent, Principal Scientist at Adobe
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Sean Parent discusses algorithm design, demonstrating how to exploit loop invariants to build generic algorithms like gather and rotate.

This week brings your our very special guest lecturer, Sean Parent. Sean Parent is a principal scientist for Adobe. Slides available here: github.com/sean-parent/sean-parent.github.com/wiki/presentat… github.com/sean-parent/sean-parent.github.com/wiki/presentat…

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What people say. Recommended for its excellent explanation of using invariants to design algorithms, specifically the gather algorithm.

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u/MysteriousSeaPeoplesin r/compsci • Recommends

On “I love loop invariants. A well-chosen invariant is useful both when designing, testing, and modifying code. Here are 4 examples (basic to fairly advanced).”

Another great example of exploiting an invariant to design an algorithm is Sean Parent's implementation of a generic 'gather' algorithm, which takes advantage of the fact that the set of objects below/above the gathering point is unchanged, allowing you to split the problem into two easier sub-problems. Here's his explanation and implementation (video should be linked to 16:50): link to this video
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u/kwan_ein r/ProgrammingLanguages • Recommends

On “why we as humanity don't invest more on making new lowlevel programming languages”

Kate Gregory is pretty good, though I can't seem to find the series she did with James McNellis. Sean Parent also, especially his famous talk about rotate link to this video (an extended version). In terms of books, Bjarne's Tour of C++ gives a good overview. Professional C++ is another good book.
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u/lucidguppyin r/dotnet • Mentions

On “Is there any resources for getting equivalents of c++ std::algorithm?”

I am trying to solve it with what C# has - that's exactly what I'm asking for. I'm trying to follow some guidelines from Sean Parent about writing better code. [video One of his pointers is "no raw loops". And he goes into "look for the algorithms you're writing in your code and replace them with std::algorithm".
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