In this post, I explained how to find quartiles in a list of numbers. As a slight add-on to that functionality, you can easily get the interquartile range. This basically means that you are finding the difference between the first and third quartiles.
So I use the code to compute the quartiles and then use simple [...] Read more »
For a brief overview of what quartiles are, you might read the Wikipedia page on this topic.
Basically, what it means is that if you were to break a list of numbers into four even parts, these would be the values that would separate them. But it gets a little complicated when your list doesn’t break [...] Read more »
This is a pretty simple tip, but I still thought I would share it for anyone who is interested. To find out whether an integer is odd, you can use the modulo operator. This operator tells you the remainder after dividing the number by some other number. If you divide any integer by 2, you [...] Read more »
I came across an interesting summary of research that was performed at Microsoft regarding the effectiveness of commonly used software development practices, including test-driven development, code coverage, small teams, etc. It was interesting that the researchers tried to quantify how well these practices work, rather than rely on what supposed “experts” say. See the summary, [...] Read more »