Bit Wizardry

This is the companion web-site to the session on Bit Wizardry conducted by Shilp Gupta at VJTI college, Mumbai on the 4^th of February, 2011. You may download the slides for this presentation from HERE.

This talk was part of the CodeChef Go For Gold Initiative that encourages participation in programming contests by college students and professionals alike.

• Javascript
• Ruby
• Python (and others)

• Decimal to Binary
• Hex to Binary
• Decimal to Binary (specify base)
• Decimal to Hex
• Binary to Decimal

1. Warmup: Decimal to Binary conversion
2. Let's talk business: Sieve of Eratosthenes
3. It's getting interesting: The next number in the sequence
4. What could be better than a game to end it? Cellsweeper
5. Red herring: Not so fast mister (or miss)

1. Hacker's Delight
2. A bit of fun: fun with bits (Topcoder tutorial)
3. Binary Indexed Trees
4. Bitwise operators in C++
5. Low-level Bit-Twiddling Hacks by The Aggregate

• The Regents of VJTI: Thank you for the opportunity...
• Shilp Gupta: Speaker (Frodo)
• Ashwin Jain (Meriadoc)
• Anup Kalbalia (Gandalf)
• Basil Skariah (Aragorn)
• Harsh Munshaw (Legolas)
• Dhruv Matani (Pippin)