Animation in diagrams (presentations in Latex)

Ashish on June 18, 2010

While most people draw diagrams in Xfig (or GIMP) and include them in LaTeX, they can be drawn directly in LaTeX (using tikz package).
A major advantage of doing that is animation (\pause) is possible when using these diagrams in presentations(based on beamer)

Following is an example demonstrating that (code released under BSD license)
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Basic GDB Tutorial

Ashish on May 31, 2010

So, you believe there are bugs in your C/C++ code or you have encountered SEGFAULT while executing your code. What will you do?

  1. write a lot of printf statements at various places in your code under suspicion
    OR
  2. use gdb (GNU code debugger)

This article is about Approach 2
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Programming in Linux for newbies

Ashish on May 31, 2010

This is meant to be a small guide (though not exhaustive) for students beginning to program on Linux system. Particularly for those, who have done extensive C/C++ programming in Windows, using the Borland/Turbo interface or the Visual C++ interface, and are greatly intimidated by the Linux platform.
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GCC Hacks

Ashish on May 31, 2010

A small list of GCC Hacks

  1. g++ -o helloworld helloworld.cc produces helloworld binary from helloworld.cc C++ file.
  2. use -Wall switch turns on all warnings(potential errors) in the code (like unused variables)
  3. g++ -E helloworld.cc generates output code after the pre-processing stage.

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