Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

There are four common Python loop mistakes that happen to just about everyone. These are crucial, too. Making a mistake with a Python loop can affect your program's performance and reliability. Dr.

In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

Resource loading optimization is the first step in improving frontend performance, and the Python backend plays a key role as the "resource scheduler". For static resources (CSS, JS, images), ...

If you’ve ever written any Python at all, the chances are you’ve used iterators without even realising it. Writing your own and using them in your programs can provide significant performance ...