It's one of the paradoxes of blogging that most every blogger (including myself) is sharing what they know right now (let's quietly ignore those who blog purely for traffic and visibility). Since everyone is learning, this can result in poor or misleading information being shared just as much as good information. Keep this in mind as you read any blog - how experienced is the writer and how well do they really know what they're talking about.
I'm just as flawed as other bloggers, so you should feel encouraged to check my ideas for yourself. Keep the date in mind as well - in our fast moving field, even good ideas can become obsolete.
Saturday, December 08 2018
priority-queues
csharp
It’s vital that our priority queue returns items in the correct order, so we should write some unit tests to ensure that items are returned in the order desired. Fortunately, we can test this fairly easy using property tests.
Saturday, December 01 2018
priority-queues
csharp
For a queue exceeding two items, our existing implementations are insufficient. We need another - a BranchingImmutablePriorityQueue<T>. Each of these nodes will combine two existing sub-queues with a head item to form a tree structure.
Saturday, November 24 2018
priority-queues
csharp
Once we have a priority queue containing a single item, how do we handle enqueuing the next item onto the queue? The answer, of course, is buried in the code from from last time: we introduce the DualItemImmutablePriorityQueue<T>.
Saturday, November 17 2018
priority-queues
csharp
As we did with our original immutable queue, we’ll define dedicated implementations of IImmutablePriorityQueue<T> for handling empty and single item queues.
Saturday, November 10 2018
priority-queues
csharp
After exploring last time how to remove an item from a queue, let’s look at the slightly more complex case of adding items.
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| Dequeuing Values | 03 Nov 2018 |
| Designing the External API | 27 Oct 2018 |
| Introducing the Priority Queue | 20 Oct 2018 |
| A better approach to reflection | 13 Oct 2018 |
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| Capturing Validation Metadata | 29 Sep 2018 |
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| Extending validation with warnings | 08 Sep 2018 |
| Bootstrapping a Psake build | 01 Sep 2018 |
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