Brett Rowberry

@brettrowberry

Husband, dad, manager, functional programmer, and DIYer

Joined September 2021

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I like programming (at work) and learning for fun. You'll often find me cooking and working on my house in my spare time.

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Transpose a Matrix in Clojure

Imagine you have rows of letters, numbers, and Greek letters: [[:a :b :c] [:1 :2 :3] [:alpha :beta :gamma]] Now, imagine you want to transpose them: (mapv vector [:a :b :c] [:1 :2 :3] [:alpha :beta :gamma]) ;;=> [[:a :1 :alpha] ;; [:b :2 :beta]...

Nov 6, 20251 min read

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Binary Search in Clojure

I decided to implement linear search before going after binary search. Now, I’m ready! With linear search, we required the elements be sorted. We didn’t require the elements be bounded. In binary search, the inputs must be bounded because we maintain...

Nov 4, 20252 min read

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Linear Search in Clojure

I consider myself a classically trained computer scientist. However, I don’t regularly practice implementing algorithms at home. I hope to do more of that! At work, I do much higher level things, like partnering with a product manager, establishing a...

Nov 2, 20253 min read

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Clojure +, +', and unchecked-add

+ In Clojure core there’s a handy function, +. I’ll bet you know what it does: (+ 1 2 3) ;;=> 6 Let’s introduce a handy function as we explore: (defn value-and-type [& args] (map (juxt identity type) args)) Let’s look at the largest supported L...

Oct 9, 20251 min read

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Clojure Ratios

Computers do math really quickly. Yet, computers struggle with all kinds of things with math. Take, for example, the simple fraction: 2/3. This should be easy to store right? In most languages, it isn’t. We’re going to use 2/3 throughout all our exam...

Oct 7, 20252 min read

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Transpose a Matrix in Clojure

Binary Search in Clojure

Linear Search in Clojure

Clojure +, +', and unchecked-add

Clojure Ratios