cpp

Yesterday while I was running system update on my home desktop, I noticed the armadillo package has been upgraded. I was pretty sure I never requested to have it installed on this desktop. The package name, though, looks very interesting. Upon looking it up, I found out that Armadillo is a C++ library for linear algebra. Coincidentally, I’ve been reviewing C++ during this end of year holiday. So it’s like a very good time to try this library out....

The first programming language I took when I started my undergraduate study in computer science was C. The second language was C++, taken in the following semester.I really liked C/C++ back then, but I never got a chance to actually use C/C++ in any real-life project. After transfering to the University of Auckland in New Zealand, I had to pick up Java as almost all computer science courses taught in Java back in early 2000....