Thoughts on Programming
Within the Utilities folder, which is a subfolder of the Applications folder, you’ll find a collection of various useful applications. One of these is the Terminal program. Instead of navigating to the Utilities folder in Finder and then launching the program, you can use Spotlight search (keyboard shortcut: ⌘ + spacebar) and enter the word … Read more
In a previous article, the basics of using local language models with Ollama were explained. This blog post is a continuation, discussing the use of an Application Programming Interface (API). In addition to the ollama command or the graphical user interface, the Ollama-managed language models can also be accessed via an API. To enable this, … Read more
This introduction to the C++ programming language uses a simple program to teach some of the basics. I’ll be using an example from the articles on setting up a C++ programming environment (links at the end of this article). It’s a simple “Hello World” program: The main() function I would now like to discuss this … Read more
To write C++ applications on Linux, you need a compiler and an editor (or an IDE). Installing a Compiler On Debian and Linux distributions based on Debian, start by running the following command: On openSUSE, run the following command as root: And on Fedora (versions 33 to 36), the following commands will do the job: … Read more
Introduction Rust is a relatively young language in the field of systems programming. The first stable version appeared in 2015, though it was announced back in 2010. It combines different programming paradigms, namely from functional, object-oriented, and concurrent programming. This means programmers from other languages will quickly find familiar elements, though they may also be … Read more