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Basic Sorting When we have a few objects be it of any kind, and we want to sort them this means that we want to rearrange them somehow so that they follow some order, an order that we define.  We can take for example one of the fields, for example if we have sheep, and each sheep has a name, and we want to order the sheep by name then we could just take any sheep and first place the sheep named Avida, and then take the sheep named Guliantra and so on, lexicographically. Respectively we could sort the sheep that we have by their age, and in this case Guliantra could end up before Avida. In computer algorithms, sorting is the like the basic algorithms, and you will find that to solve many other problems you would start by first sorting and then progress to actually solve the problem.  So sorting could be the first step of many other problem solutions. While there are a few types of sorting algorithms we have a few shared metrics to evaluate them all.  So when...

API Design Paper Summary Introduction Is building API a solvable question, how far can we get into having good API’s and what is a good API at all? these are all very hard questions, usually you know the answers once you designed multiple APIs and got experience and then reviewed the decisions you have taken. Fortunately there are papers dealing with this problem exactly, for complex API’s used by a huge amount of people, the Qt API for example a very populate framework for desktop GUI building, and today we are going to go through a summary of that paper. “The Little Manual of API Design” is a very nice paper written by Jasmin Blanchette has released a paper while working in trolltech, which is a Nokia company. I found it to be very clear and concise, and reassuring what we think of API design. It’s a difficult task that includes both artistic, social, programming and scientific skills. We are going to summarize this paper for you. When you write an API you combine a set o...