Resources to learn bitwise programming? [closed]

Answer 1

I agree with the responses above on that GameDev.net article. That was a good one for me in the past.

This article on Denormalization with Bitmasks (http://maggienelson.com/2009/02/denormalization-with-bitmasks/) was useful to me as well and includes database-specific examples, in case those are of use.

Answer 2

You'll have to know the background of the binary system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system has a great overview. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation for bitwise operations.

Answer 3

I imagine there are other possibly better resources, but I remembered that there was an article on this I read a few years ago on GameDev.Net.

BitWise Operations in C

Answer 4

I absolutely love Henry Warren's Hacker's Delight book. The website for it offers Chapter 2 ("Basics") as a free sample which, despite the name, offers some fairly sophisticated bit manipulation tricks. It might not be the best place to start, but it's fantastic once you start to get comfortable with bit arithmetic.

Answer 5

Here are a few:

• Dev Articles -> Bitwise Operators
• GameDev.net -> Bitwise Operators
• Wikipedia -> Bitwise Operation
• Code Project -> Bitwise Operations

Answer 6

Well, I guess every c/c++ book explains bitwise operators. There are also a lot of tutorials online.If I were you, I would improve my google skills. Delicious also has a good search functionality. Here are some of the links I have found:

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1563.asp

http://www.vipan.com/htdocs/bitwisehelp.html

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation

http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/jmpc/bitwise.html

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/bitwise_operators.html

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/low-level-bit-hacks-you-absolutely-must-know/

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/bitbashing.aspx

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/int/sx4ab.html

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~vose/c-stuff/bithacks.html

http://www.somacon.com/p125.php

http://www.fredosaurus.com/notes-cpp/expressions/bitops.html

http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~stbird/Tutorials/BitwiseOps.html

http://www.custard.org/~andrew/programming/bitwise/

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/Bitwise_Operation.aspx

http://bits.stephan-brumme.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_manipulation

http://www.hackersdelight.org/HDcode.htm

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/BitMath

http://irc.essex.ac.uk/www.iota-six.co.uk/c/e4_bitwise_operators_and_or_xor.asp