The India Map C Program – Explained
Few months back, I came across an interesting piece of code: This odd looking obfuscated C program has the following output: Yes! That wired looking code prints the map of India. But a first look...
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Installing the Samsung Pro SSD into Dell Inspiron 1545
Recently there is a lot of buzz around SSDs (Solid State Drives). So to find out if it is really worth it, I thought about upgrading my Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop HDD with an...
Chasing a dream: The story on Robocon
It was a rainy day in the August of 2007 and we had gathered in the South Hostel common room for a meeting. Such meetings were a common place those days for various societies...
Robocon – A lifetime of learning and memories.
The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest – Robocon is one of the most challenging robotics contest in the Asia-Pacific region. Every year a problem statement based on a certain country’s culture (the host) is released...
Change Case of a String in a Fast, Optimized way
writing a loop to check each character and then perform certain function on them. Doing that not just increases lines of code but also time complexity. In this article I present some special cases...
Create an ASCII Gradient
This experiment is part of my larger experiment on converting any image to text. In this part I am going to explain how to create and ASCII gradient so...
Convert any image to selectable text
We have seen pictures represented as text at many places. We often find them in cell phone messages or online greetings like the one below: Hearts layered _____$$$$__________$$$$$ ___$$$$$$$$______$$$$$$$$$ __$$$$$$$$$$____$$$$$$$$$$$ _$$$$$$$$$$$$__$$$$$$$$$$$$$ _$$$$$$$$$$$$$_$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...
Change case using binary operators
A character can be converted to lower case using predefined functions like toupper() in C or toUpperCase in JAVA. But using these functions causes increase in time complexity. So when you have program complexity...
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