Open the file Makefile. This file contains all information necessary to build the project. Makefiles define build goals, which can be run using the command make. The default build goal is called all. make supports many helpful macros which simplify the build definition. $(wildcard *.c) defines a list of all .c files in the current directory. $(addprefix build/,$(SRC:.c=.o)) adds a prefix to eac...

A version control system helps multiple developers working on the same code base. It keeps copies of previous code versions, which is helpful for debugging and software change analysis. It also allows to merge concurrent edits of text files. We use the version control system git for our tutorial. Download and install git from http://git-scm.com/download/mac. Switch to the directory ex-03/git-re...

Some of you may feel that all that is original and interesting that can be said about the aims of education has already been said by a stellar cast of philosophers ranging from Plato to Dewey. I do not think that this is the case. It shall be my thesis that the subject should once again become a matter of vital concern -as it already is to many ordinary citizens. We can learn from the past, but...

Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States, affecting multiple health outcomes in children, adolescents, and adults [2–5]. This increased risk includes metabolic disturbances such as glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular and liver diseases [6–21]. Increasing data suggest that the link between obesity and poor health outcome is rel...

Object-oriented expand on the idea of using data structures like struct and union in order to organise logically connected data items. Instead of just associating values in logical groups, as done with structs, object-oriented programming also associates operations to these data item groups. The paradigm requires that all data items modelling the same object need to be categorised in the same c...

Aims and Scope: Mechanisms of Development is an international journal whose purpose is to communicate contemporary studies in developmental biology with special emphasis on the characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying developmental processes in either vertebrates, invertebrates or plants. Areas of particular interest include embryogenesis, pattern formation, cell movement and morphog...