The most exciting job that I had as a child was that of collecting newspapers. Rameswaram had a tiny railway station, but the train that passed through did not stop
there during the days of the War. But this train […]

Carrying a few coconuts back with us, I would hurry on ahead as we neared our home, eager to tell my mother and elder sister all about the things I had seen. They, too, would listen to my stories as I got prepared […]

Have you ever seen a beautiful sunset? I have, when I was a little boy, standing near the sea at Rameswaram, the town where I grew up. As the sun goes lower and lower, the sky turns a vivid red and golden. The sea […]

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, born on 15th October, 1931 in a small village in Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, rose to become the President of India.
Even though he came from a poor and humble background, his […]

In 1963 Kalam was sent to the US for a six-month training programme on sounding rocket launching techniques.Years later the amusing suggestion was
made that Kalam had learnt his space technology during that visit, […]

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, a distinguished aerospace technologist who led the development of the country’s first satellite launch vehicle as well as
the first indigenous operational missiles, then went o […]

Searching a BST is even simpler than insertion. The pseudocode is self-explanatory but we will look brie°y at the premise of the algorithm nonetheless.
We have talked previously about insertion, we go either left […]

Binary search trees (BSTs) are very simple to understand. We start with a root node with value x, where the left subtree of x contains nodes with values < x
and the right subtree contains nodes whose values are ¸ […]

As you may of guessed the cases that we use for deletion in a doubly linked list are exactly the same as those de¯ned in x2.1.3. Like insertion we have the added task of binding an additional reference ( […]

145. Here we go with another one of those “impossible to feel beautiful” topics. Yeast infections. Yuck! You know, this nasty little fungus lives in the vagina 365 days a year generally giving us no trouble at all […]