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I came across this fascinating paper documenting seven years of experience building and refining an undergraduate robotics course within a Computer Science curriculum, and it's packed with hard-won practical wisdom. Starting back in 20...
Read more →I recently rediscovered Midnight Commander and it instantly brought back memories of navigating filesystems before GUIs ruled everything — but honestly, it holds up remarkably well even today. mc is a dual-pane, text-mode file manager that runs beautifully in a t...
I recently stumbled across CodeCombat, and honestly it's one of the more clever approaches to learning programming I've seen in a while. The premise is simple but effective: you write real Python or JavaScript code to control your hero through dungeons, defeat ogres, and so...
Read more →Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing. Pascal was restrictive with respect to low-level access (it was deliberately "safe", as meant for teaching structured programming). So C won out as a language that allowed low-level/unsafe programming (pointer arithmetic, direct memory access) … Continue reading A brief history of C/C++ programming languages
There’s an old concept called Literate Programming. It never stuck or took off, but it came back to me the other day. Here is the Wikipedia explanation. My summary of this approach is to write a program (source code) as if it were a chapter i...
Read more →You know I've been using Claude Code and friends extensively in my work. To the extent that most of the python that I generated in the last month was written by Claude Code. You might know that up to recently I was teaching at Brandeis University in the Computer Science department. While teaching so...
Read more →Based on my own experience, some of my favorite books and blog posts, and advice from friends, I’ve come up with this. What do you think? What should I add? Please comment! This was my opinion back in 2015 I will create a new post showing what has changed! #### Personal Effectiveness Rules of ...
Read more →Midnight Commander Development Center
I have met a lot of developers in my life.
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Learn Python typing (type hints) with interactive online
exercises!
Seven years ago (2016), we began integrating Robotics into our Computer Science curriculum. This paper explores the mission, initial goals and objectives, specific choices we made along the way, and why and outcomes. Of course, we were not the first to do so. Our...
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.
The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”
A nice overview of rust and its pros and cons.
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
This handbook is for grad students, postdocs and PIs who do a lot of programming as part of their research. It will teach you, in a practical manner, how to organize your code so that it is easy to...
Definitions of algorithms, data structures, and classical Computer Science problems. Some entries have links to implementations and more information.
Bitbucket is a alternative to GitHub. It's very similar. But the one big different is that even Public repositories are available free.
Ruby on Rails API documentation tool. Contribute to Apipie/apipie-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.
Tsung demo site
A cheat sheet for the keyboard shortcuts in the Atom text editor by GitHub
Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners. Learn Python or JavaScript as you defeat ogres, solve mazes, and level up. Open source HTML5 game!
If you’re a ruby fan person like me, you will love just reading these!
Classic quote about OO vs. functional
The History of Processing by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
Fun list of papers, reports, and dissertations related to ruby from academia.
A language for humans and computers
Looks really cool. ML auto completion for any programming language. Must try.
Nice review of various programming language s including crystal
Handy summary
An amazing set of cheat sheets from a prolific developer in the philippines
A comprehensive package of C++ robotics related code. Another resource, not sure how well it works or how usable it is.
A classic - the books and the guy
Subreddit dedicated to the news and discussions about the creation and use of technology and its surrounding issues.
DRY. Everything in moderation. On rules and knowing when to break them.
I don’t think I agree. But does contain some good caveats. Reminds me of the old “Goto considered harmful”.
It’s always hard to remember all the different options that activerecord offers for manipulating data.
A good list. I know every single one and would generally agree with it. Some books are too high in the list and some too low. But an excellent starting point.
Some wise advice although for a funny language.
Very cool and clever visual programming.
Ive been doing a deep dive on Kalman Filters. Here are one of the best explanations. Beware it's hard.
Some ideas on naming. Doesn’t take into account conventions or idioms from specific languages.
Groan but ok, funny