On 8/8/07, Richard Q. Caneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > guyz question lang po about this software freedom day 07 seminar, is the > 500 pesos registration for the 2 day activities? ok lang ba kahit 1 lang > ako, kasi wala naman me grupo eh...we uses our linux as web/fw/proxy/mail > lang po..tnx > > Richard >
dude, you hijacked the wrong thread! just reply to the original message so as not to break the thread. ----- Original Message ---- > Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List < > plug@lists.linux.org.ph> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 10:17:30 AM > Subject: [plug] Linux in the classroom > > For my CS135 class at U.P., I gave a programming > assignment to compare the performance of quicksort, > heapsort, mergesort, and radixsort, on arrays of > strings. Each string is of fixed size 16 characters, > and the sort must be done on arrays of sizes 100000, > 200000, 300000, ... , 900000, 1000000. The students > are free to choose the operating system, and the > programming language. I showed the class that the > programming assignment can be done with Debian on 1GB > ram, using Gnu C, by giving the class a demo of > quicksort of the array of one million 16-character > strings. > > Among the problems that my students encountered and > reported to me are the following: > > 1. You can not do the programming assignment on > Windows, since the Windows development environment can > not support such big arrays. > > 2. You can not do the programming assignment using > Java on Linux, since Java-for-Linux does not support > such big arrays. > > So the students are forced to use Linux, using C, C++ > or any tool that allows management of large arrays. > Unconsciously, I gave a programming assignment that > promoted the use of Linux, and extolled the virtues of > Linux, without making the advertisement so obvious. > > He he he . . . > > PManalastas > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > ------------------------------ > Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel > today!<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48517/*http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7> > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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