Greece has more than one thousand islands, among which close to 200 are inhabited. These islands are scenic, blessed with many beautiful beaches, and are source of calmness and energy. This article provides an overview of the Greek islands and summarizes the key highlight of some selected islands and offers …
Graffiti is a social expression. The street art reflects the thoughts of society in general. By observing them, we can grasp the social sentiment at the grass-roots level.
Athens is not really known on graffiti landscape as Berlin, Buenos Aires, or New York; however, there is a lot to explore …
This list is compiled by Greek students as one of the assignments for 'Software Engineering in Practice' course in the spring 2018 that I designed to make them learn Git and GitHub. The original repository can be found here; I am presenting the curated version of the repository with some …
Kent Beck coined the term "code smell" in the popular Refactoring book by Martin Fowler and defined it informally as certain structures in the code that suggest (sometimes they scream for) the possibility of refactoring. Since then, various smells have been reported that impair software quality in one or more …
I used to think that one has to be a really good photographer (or photoshoper) in order to produce stunning beach photos. Back of my mind, I was probably doubting the beauty of such beaches and believing that they are decently good but overhyped by the skills of photographers (or …
A couple of weeks ago, students at AUEB started a new semester. In this semester, I am assisting Prof. Spinellis as a TA for a course viz. SEIP (Software Engineering In Practice). A series of lab toturials were planned for the course. I took the first tutorial in this series …
Check out my post YALCOM and our paper for more refined information, experiments, and results.
Along with other metrics, LCOM (Lack of Cohesion in Methods) was first defined by C&K in the OOPSLA paper [1] that invented a new field of object-oriented metrics. LCOM shows the degree of lack …
This is going to be a long post; so hold on. My goal to write this article is not only sharing the process of acquiring a resident permit in Greece but also to share my experiences (read frustration) during this process.
It must be easy to follow rules and difficult …
Poor design quality and huge technical debt are common issues perceived in real-life software projects. Carrying out a software design quality assessment effectively and adopting the recommendations from it could improve the design quality. A comprehensive design assessment requires us to know the requirements in detail and weight different design …
In April, my family shifted with me in Athens from Bangalore. Shifting from home country to another country is not easy and in pursuit to convince them I used "tourism" as an effective weapon. Now, after the initial settling down period, it's time for me to plan a trip for …
Machine Learning for Source Code Analysis (ML4SCA)