Grokking Algorithms Book Review - Best Algorithms Book for Beginners

I have read many books on data structures and algorithms e.g. Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Corman and Algorithm design manual by Steve S. Skiena, so when I come to know about this book, I thought, just another book on algorithms, but I was wrong. This is not just another book on algorithms but one of the most interesting books you will ever read on Algorithms and Data structure. Let's accept it, data structure and algorithms is interesting but at the same time they are very complex and hard to understand, especially, if not explained very well and that's where this book rocks. It explains things in very easy language and most importantly with a context, which helps to understand the topic better.

Top 5 Java 8 Courses to Learn Online - Best of Lot

It's been more than 4 years since Java 8 was launched on the March 2014 and many of you already thinking that Java 8 now legacy version but there are still so many Java developers out there who don't know how to code using new language features of Java 8 like lambdas, stream, and method reference. It's high time for all those programmers to learn and master Java 8 before their skill become outdated. After that, we already have a couple more Java releases i.e. Java 9, Java 10, and Java 11 in the space of just 6 months apart but Java 8 is still the most used version, particularly when it comes to coding style.

Top 10 Popular Programming languages and their Inventors

There are many programming languages out there in the software world and they are still coming like Scala, Go, Closure etc, but the only handful of them have managed to survive to date. These are the ones who have contributed immensely to software development. Since programming language is a single most important thing in software development world, it's often discussed, criticized and improved over the years. Programmers and developers, who those programming languages are icons of the programming world and sometimes I feel sad when a guy using a programming language doesn't know, who is behind that.

20 Java and Programming Quotes to Motivate Yourself

I always have a strong interest in knowing great peoples of my field like software development and programming. Knowing about them, following them, and reading about them not only gives you immense knowledge but also the motivation ,you need to excel in whatever you are doing. It's the motivation, not knowledge that will propel your career. Knowledge is almost useless without motivation because just knowing is not enough, you need to apply that knowledge, and without motivation, you just can't do that. There are times when programmers also feeling tired and bored. These are the times when you spent hours constantly looking at the computer screen, clicking here and there, surfing the net without doing anything.

5 Programming Languages Every Software Engineer Should Learn

I have read somewhere that programmer should learn a new programming language every year ( I think it's code complete, not sure, though), but if you cannot do so, I suggest to at least learn following five programming language to do well in your career. Everybody loves polyglot programmer and an all-rounder who is versatile enough to write a quick script and can also write complex Java programs. In fact, it's almost mandatory for a senior developer to learn more than one language. Interviewers are giving more attention to an engineer who has good experience with multiple languages e.g. C++ and Java goes quite well, so is Python and Java. I personally like Software Engineers who have strong experience in either C++ or Java and can write scripts in groovy, Perl or Python.

10 Example of lsof commands in UNIX and Linux

It's been a long time since I have written anything on UNIX or Linux, but today I'll talk about the lsof command, a utility command every system admin and developers love. The lsof command stands for list open file descriptors and as the name suggests, it is used to find open files by process. Since almost everything in UNIX are file, you can use lsof command to find an open regular file, a directory, a symbolic link, a block special file, an NFS mounted file, a socket stream, a shared library, a character special file, a regular pipe, a named pipe, an internet socket, a UNIX domain socket and many others. I have mostly used it to find all the files opened by a particular process, which I will show you in the coming section.