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Knotebooks - Anyone can contribute. Everyone can learn. Signs that you're a good programmer - Software Engineering Tips The most frequently viewed page on this site is Signs you're a bad programmer, which has also now been published on dead trees by Hacker Monthly, and I think that behoves me to write its antithesis. "Bad programmer" is also considered inflammatory by some who think I'm speaking down to them. Not so; it was personal catharsis from an author who exhibited many of those problems himself. Therefore if you think you're missing any of the qualities below, don't be offended. 1. The compiler and runtime can often answer a question faster than a human can. Symptoms Side projectsDabbling in other programming languages, especially ones from a different "family" (procedural, stack-based, concurrent, etc.)Knows what you're talking about when you mention "Arduino"Old, uncommitted code that duplicates other code's functionality but isn't referenced elsewhere in the projectA tendency to suggest wacky and unrealistic solutions in meetingsA cubicle or desk populated with toys that came from ThinkGeek 2.

public-apis/README.md at master · toddmotto/public-apis Where YouTube EDU Went Wrong (and how it might recover) by Higher Ed Live YouTube‘s educational portal, YouTube EDU, entered its third year of operation this past week. In spite of some very optimistic publicity for its initial launch, its development as a teaching-and-learning tool has thus far proven rather lackluster. YouTube.com/edu w as originally intended as an opportunity for colleges and universities around the world to post educational content online for anyone’s free access. Schools of higher education seem partly to blame for their lack of effort to provide high-quality academic content. Where are the contributions from our colleges and universities? Contrast that with schools that lead the way in providing online academic content: 13,442 viewers had checked out videos put up by MIT; 13,671 had clicked on Harvard’s. But Mallory Wood, assistant director of marketing at St. “There’s room for all different types of content… not just academic,” she asserts, not wanting to label marketing video content as somehow bad. image credit

Visualizing Code | Actively Lazy May 6, 2013 by David Green When writing software we’re working at two levels: Creating an executable specification of exactly what we want the machine to doCreating a living document that describes the intent of what we want the machine to do, to be read by humans The first part is the easy part, the second part takes a lifetime to master. What does it mean to visualize code? It might sound trivial, but the first necessary step is being able to quickly parse code and mentally step through what will happen. Where you need to understand looping mechanics and mentally model what happens overall not just each iteration. Which is generally harder for inexperienced programmers to understand and reason about; even though once you’ve learned the pattern it can be clearer and more concise. Once you’ve mastered how to understand what a single method does, you have to understand how methods become composed together. Like this: Like Loading...

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