“The photo is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an united nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. The picture shocked the whole world. No…
Month: September 2013
Pascal’s Triangle
Pascal’s triangle was invented by [[Blaise Pascal]] during his autistic period. Intending to prove that the shortest distance between two points was a metric foot, he stumbled upon the following pattern achieved by adding the sum of the other to the one before and just a jump to the left. 1 1 1 1 2…
Moving on from Hello World to Hello Caractacus
A “Hello world” program is a computer program that outputs “Hello, world” on a display device. Because it is typically one of the simplest programs possible in most programming languages, it is by tradition often used to illustrate to beginners the most basic syntax of a programming language. ~