Agile Tsar Dmitri Dolguikh pointed out Project Euler yesterday, which is a website containing a series of short programming problems. It reads a bit like bonus questions on a math exam, which is actually quite refreshing compared to the day-to-day problems at work. For added fun, I’m trying to run through the problems in Common [...]
A lot of people are linking to this article about the state of the practice in CS curriculum and its use of Java creating dull replaceable drones.
mdehaan points out a wonderful section wherein the authors relate Java programming to a plumber in a hardware store, finding pieces and putting them together to solve a problem, [...]
# Assorted functions for various things
Thank you, developers of yore. You’ve made things oh so much clearer to this lowly maintenance programmer.