The prospect of diving into the world of computer science and programming can be overwhelming. There are seemingly a ton of coding languages, and it’s hard to decide where and how to begin. Not to ...

Here's what I've learned over 20 years of working with both C++ and Java (and more years before that with C++): As a rule of thumb, when you convert optimized C++ to Java, the code is about 3x slower.

Computer programs can use data, evaluate if-then conditions on the data and use extremely fast iterative loops to perform these functions. In software programs, these functions get organized into ...