Notes and essays by Christopher. If Harriet and Martin have opinions then they express them elsewhere.
Date last updated | Title | About this document |
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April 1998 | Response to act one of the Shakespeare play 'King Lear' | An example of many A-level English Literature essays I have hanging around. |
March 2000 | Medical Diagnostic Imaging | Just to prove I actually do some work at university! |
April 2000 | Review of Microdigital Mico computer | An article written for RISC Nation magazine during Easter 2000, though not published here on the web until June. |
February 2002 | RISC: The processor architecture of the future | An opinionated technical essay that I wrote at university for the "Artificial Intelligence/Software Engineering" course module. |
February 2002 | Amalthaea extended for a multilingual environment | An essay on information retrieval systems that I wrote at university for the "Information Access" course module. |
November 2001 - April 2002 | A graphics rendering library for ARM systems | Report submitted for my 3rd year project in Computer Science. |
January 2010 | On kibibytes, mebibytes, Kibbles 'n Bits | An opinion piece about kibibytes, mebibytes and gibibytes |
March 2010 | Ambiguity in escape sequences | A note on escape sequences. |
February 2011 | You're no fun any more | An opinion piece on the 2007 videogame Halo 3. |
September 2022 | While statement considered harmful? | A note on different loop constructs in the C programming language. |
August 2013 | In which Pooh understands the C preprocessor | A short story about the C preprocessor and the Hundred Acre Wood. |
October 2013 | Life lessons Doom has taught me | Lessons learned from the 1993 videogame Doom. |
December 2013 | The secret of writing TIE Fighter cutscene dialogue | A tribute to the dialogue in the 1994 videogame Star Wars: TIE Fighter. |
January 2015 | Handling errors in C | A note on error-handling in the C programming language. |
February 2017 | The power of individuals | An opinion piece on online petitions. |
December 2018 | Creation: An act of sheer will? | Self-reflection and thoughts on the purpose of programming. |
February 2020 | On Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends | An opinion piece on the TV programme based on the Railway Series. |
September 2020 | On Id Software games | An opinion piece on Doom and Quake. |
July 2022 | Defence of the flight dynamics of Thunderbirds | Facebook arguments can become very silly. |
August 2022 | Why old games are still interesting | An opinion piece on old games and file formats. |
December 2022 | Generics in C | A tutorial-style introduction to generic programming. |
December 2022 | Polymorphism in C | A tutorial-style introduction to polymorphism. |
January 2023 | Why C needs a new type qualifier | A proposal to extend the C programming language. |
December 2023 | goto hell; | An opinion piece on structured programming in C. |
September 2024 | C versus C++: fight! | An opinion piece on C and C++. |