Krugle!
Though I did study computer science in college, I didn’t end up getting a job in that field. I do still program a bit for my own entertainment, but as I am not as active of a programmer as I used to be, I often find myself Googling for bits and piece of code to refresh my memory. Though I do love Google and it’s wonderful search abilities, sometimes this approach is time consuming and frustrating.
Enter Krugle, a search engine that allows you to search through code and documentation of Open Source projects from various repositories. I think what’s great here is not specifically being able to search for code, but being able to search for a certain algorithm and have it appear in half a dozen different languages and implementations.
The first thing I thought to search for was the “Towers of Hanoi” problem. If you’ve taken a programming class or two, you’ve probably seen this one — it’s a introduction into the confusing and frustrating world of recursion. At least now I can learn how to solve it in 6 different languages at once!
