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Algorithms and Data Structures Anyone?

  Algorithms and Data Structures Anyone?     This all sounds very technical however, at their core, data structure s and algorithms are necessary for every computer system and program to work properly in said system . These two principles work independently of one another while also maintaining the necessary relationship to build and execute the programs.   A program must have correct use of data structures for the algorithm design to allow the program itself to “work” .  Algorithmic design refers to the mathematical process or method used when attempting to solve problems . There are a number of ways to design these algorithms , and each comes with its own complexit ies . The two main design approaches are Top-Down and Bottom-up .  Top-Down focuses on taking a larger problem and dividing it up into smaller problems continuously until the complex problem is eventually  solved. Bottom-up is the reverse of this where you take parts of complex pro...

Java Anyone?

Java Anyone?   This week’s post is about a very interesting programming language that most everyone in the world (even non techies) has heard about, JAVA!   JAVA is a high level class based, object oriented language that has been around since 1995. Because it has been around for so long (almost 30 years), there is LOTS of documentation and t utorials etc. on it. Object Oriented Programming (OOP for short) is a methodology for programming that involves objects and classes and allows for simpler development.   Anyone wanting to learn about software development should certainly check out and learn about JAVA. So how do you “get” JAVA? Lets find out!   Luckily, JAVA is open source so that means it is FREE! You do not need to pay anything to get JAVA.   First we will go to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/ to download JAVA19 (this is the newest stable release of JAVA)   After that you will want to grab a JAVA Editor such as NetBea...

Tech Topic Connection

            This blog project is focused on data visualization .  Data visualization is important to me as I have aspirations to learn new data visualization and forecasting techniques in order to someday start a data analytics company where we will help small and midsize companies to better understand and “see” their data in a new way which will in turn help them gain new customers retain  more of the customers that they already have .                By researching this important topic and constructing this blog, I aim to uncover more information about the current state of the data visualization industry as well as where it is going in the future and learning about the newest tools that are built specifically with both data scientists and more importantly the end user in mind .  Modeling data and making charts that are visually appealing is all well and good but unless...