Ali Gholami Rudi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Babol Noshirvani University of Technology

Past semesters: 94/1, ..., 98/1, 98/2.

Dal's Geometric Notebook!

Dal's Geometric Notebook!

Our weekly CG meetings are held on Wednesdays at 10:00 in my office; everyone is welcome!

Before Dal's Geometric Notebook, there was challenging Thursdays: submission guide and the judge.
Issues: CT31, CT30, CT29, CT28, CT27, CT26, CT25, CT24, CT23, CT22, CT21, CT20, CT19, CT18, CT17, CT16, CT15, CT14, CT13, CT12, CT11, CT10, CT0F, CT09, CT08, CT07, CT06, CT05, CT04, CT03, CT02, CT01, CT00.

Compilers

Notes and assignments:

• Course overview.

Resources:

• K. D. Cooper, L. Torczon, Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.
• A. V. Aho, M. S. Lam, R. Sethi, J. D. Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley, 2007.
• A. W. Appel, Modern Compiler Implementation in C, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Operating Systems

Notes and assignments:

• Course overview.

Resources:

• A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin, G. Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 9th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
• T. Anderson, M. Dahlin, Operating Systems: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, Recursive Books, 2012.
• R. Cox, F. Kaashoek, R. Morris, xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system; Draft available here.

Laboratory assignments: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9.

Computational Geometry

Notes and assignments:

• Course overview.

Resources:

• M. de Berg, O. Cheong, M. van Kreveld, M. Overmars, Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications, Third Edition, Springer, 2008.
• J. O'Rourke, Computational Geometry in C, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Interesting stuff (what may interest an undergrad student):

• CG Challenge 2020 is about minimum convex partition.
• This year's Graph Drawing contests: creative topics and live challenge.
• Dal is a national figure now (see here).
• Brian Kernighan talks about language design (video).
• Great news for Neatroff fans: an experimental Neatroff PDF post-processor is added to Neatpost.
• My DFS implementation in Neatroff!
• For Python programmers, python-rope may be very interesting; I have spent a considerable amount of my time on it when I was an undergraduate.
• Ratpoison is an excellent solution for getting rid of the mice connected to your PC! I used to use it before writing my Linux framebuffer programs.
• XKCD 399 shows how to solve the Travelling Salesman Problem efficiently!
• I am updating Neatroff ths package to conform to Parsa guidelines.
• What is "Computer Engineering" here?
• Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust; in the second column of the last page, he criticises the press for their treatment of so-called "hackers".
• Interesting BSc projects: qneatvi (Zahra Ghorbani), fastcgi (Hamidreza Rabbanian).
• IOI 2017 was in Iran (this page reminds me of several of my old, close friends).
• This file demonstrates Neateqn Neatroff preprocessor for typesetting mathematics.
• Fossil is an archival file server for Plan 9.
• CHEM is a Troff preprocessor for drawing chemical diagrams.

Feeling bored?

• The Wonderful Neatroff describes the history of Neatroff.
• Learn how to use the vi editor (Neatvi supports editing Farsi documents).
• Learn to use Troff (Neatroff supports typesetting Farsi documents).
• You can use Neatroff ths package for writing Farsi theses.
• Have a look at my programs and Github page for anything interesting.
• Try some of the items listed in my suggestions for undergraduate project course.
• Contact me if you prefer more ambitious projects.

To contact me, write to gholamirudi at nit dot ac dot ir (my CV and office hours).