So, I'm trying to work the algorithms in Knuth's Art of Computer Programming. Ideally, all of them. Since I'm sort of a polyglot, I figure I'll focus on implementing in C++ and scala. C++ because it's been a while and scala because I'd like to try to re-spin each algorithm from a functional perspective. Test first, github, the whole 9. I could do it in Java or C#, but I get paid to do that kind of stuff - i.e. BOOOORRRING.

Last time I compiled my own C++ was like 7 years ago on a linux 2.4 kernel. Straight make on the command line sort of thing. Nowadays my rig looks more like this:

Jasons-MacBook-Air-2:src jason$ uname -a
Darwin Jasons-MacBook-Air-2.local 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Step one will be getting a running DEV environment set up. Should be a trick.