Sorting, C++, CSS and HTML

Summary of the last three weeks of activity here on the Computer Programming topic, for those who haven't been here for a while...

So much goes on here at Suite 101, that sometimes we forget to actually post a blog. It's been a fairly complex three weeks, with suggestions and requests coming from all corners.

I've tried to nail down topics that people are actually interested in, and for the past few weeks three things have been coming up time and time again:

• Sorting
• HTML, CSS and PHP
• C++ Programming

I have put up a Quick Sort article, for those who wanted to know how to use that particular part of the standard C/C++ library collection. It's not as fast as some other algorithms, but it is several orders of magnitude faster than a bubble sort! Part of that is due to the fact that it makes many less comparisons than a bubble sort. Read more in the Quick Sort Using Arrays in C/C++ article.

The topic has also been quite C-heavy of late, and some of our visitors have sent a message saying that they want to explore C++. Subsequently, I am going to introduce C++ to them over a few articles. When all the articles are posted, I'll put up a kind of tutorial overview to help guide people through the process. A good start, however, is the Getting Started in C++ Programming article.

Finally, someone mailed me about WordPress, and it got me to thinking that the links between PHP, CSS and HTML are not entirely understood. Publishers would benefit from a little bit more explanation about how programming and document creation are linked. So, to get the ball rolling, I decided to put together a little introduction article, I call the CSS and HTML Template Tutorial.

For those of you thinking that HTML and CSS is not exactly programming, please bear with me. It'll quickly get much more technical, I assure you.

Happy programming,

Guy