From 610d1f02dd57cbaeccd076ad14ee9efacc5954a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kumar Damani Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 13:13:10 -0500 Subject: prog as art post draft --- content/post/programming-as-art/index.md | 67 +++++++++++++++++++ public/categories/index.html | 2 +- public/index.html | 4 +- public/index.xml | 11 +++- public/post/index.html | 16 ++++- public/post/index.xml | 11 +++- public/post/programming-as-art/index.html | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ public/post/programs/index.html | 2 +- public/post/self-host/index.html | 4 +- public/series/index.html | 2 +- public/sitemap.xml | 13 ++-- public/tags/index.html | 2 +- public/tags/index.xml | 6 +- public/tags/index/index.html | 2 +- public/tags/index/index.xml | 2 +- public/tags/personal/index.html | 5 +- public/tags/personal/index.xml | 11 +++- public/tags/tech/index.html | 5 +- public/tags/tech/index.xml | 11 +++- 19 files changed, 257 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/post/programming-as-art/index.md create mode 100644 public/post/programming-as-art/index.html diff --git a/content/post/programming-as-art/index.md b/content/post/programming-as-art/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1be9cb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/programming-as-art/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ ++++ +author = "Kumar Damani" +title = "Romanticism in Programming" +date = "2022-11-29" +draft = true +description = "How programming is romantic." +tags = [ + "personal" +] ++++ + +Why there is art in programming. + + +During the early days as a CS student we were learning about loops, +and saw "Hello World!" getting printed out to the console N-thousands of times +in just 3 functional lines of code. + +for 1 to 1000: + print "Hello World!" + +This felt like having the Elder Wand at the time. + +But there was more to our lesson. +The TA then asks us to put our newly found power to use by computing the +sum of 1 to 100. Of course, it was a natural application of our topic: + +sum = 0 +for i in 1 to 100: + sum = sum + i + +Sure enough we saw the answer 5050 in the console. +But then the TA reminds us that we are making our computers work too hard. +It needs to do 100 basic ADD instructions in order to make this computation happen. + +What if it the number was a million? How well would our method scale? +Well then it would take a million basic ADD instructions. +Seems like this scales with "linearly" with the input size. +Later we would formalize this to O(n). + +The TA hinted that there is a better way, and that we already know of the better way in math. + +sum = n(n+1)/2 + +With this we are no longer using loops, but a known mathematical fact about sequences. +This one-liner solves our problem with 3 basic (ADD, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE) instructions. +It does not depend on the size of the input like our previous solution, thus +no matter the input, it always takes 3 instructions to compute! +This is a HUGE win! +Later we would formalize this to O(1), or "constant" scaling. + +> IRL the complier would optimize the loop solution such that it does not take N instructions +but for the purposes of learning we were not allowed to depend on that. + +Looking back at it now, +Both solutions are equally correct, and modern compilers would optimize the first solution +in the final instructions such that any performance differences would be negligible. +Objectively, the first solution is more readable, and friendly to a new observer than the second. +Yet I am still so drawn to the second solution. + +The first solution reminds me of the saying "to a hammer, eveything looks like a nail". +Its a brute force approach. +In comparison, with the second solution, using the exact tool for our particular problem +somehow feels personalized and even "romantic". + +Most often in programming, we don't have such clear optimizations. 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But there was more. The TA then asks us to put our newly found power to use by producing the +sum of 1 to 100. Ofcourse, it was a natural application of our topic. We simply set the limit, +and do an increment a sum in the loop’s body.

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