Musings of a Khan.

       There is this blogger who writes good stuff when it comes to CS. Here's he talking about BOTTOM-UP VS. TOP-DOWN . I have commented the same thing about BOTTOM-UP and TOP-DOWN here .

       I have seen many people who refer to E. Balagurusamy's OOP with C++ are quite confused as to what is the difference between BOTTOM-UP and TOP-DOWN . Just to make it clear, this thread only deals with the basics of the 2 approaches.       Coming to the book, it talks about C++ being BOTTOM-UP and C being TOP-DOWN . I personally feel he was wrong there as the approach doesn't depends on the programming language but on the Software Engineering methodology adopted by the company for a particular software product. In general, however he was right, how read below. Figure. Simple Diagram which describes both methods.        To put it in the simplest way, bottom up means, you make the smallest pieces of your program first and then use them as blocks to build a bigger program.        In top down , you start building the highest level of abstraction and then make small...

I today came across this interesting topic called Pointers to data members in C++ . Discussed in my thread here, Go have a look  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32021946/pointers-to-members-in-c/32022069#32022069 .