~lobsters | Bookmarks (9)

Ah, so now we come to my new favorite programming term. A pair of recent toots on Mastodon drew my attention to this 2013 journal entry by Jack Rusher: Leopards in the Source Code (jackrusher.com) "…​quite often developers follow an approach where they modify the code until all tests pass and then back slowly away f...

Adam: Hi, this is CoRecursive, and I’m Adam Gordon Bell. Today, we’re taking a look into the world of software design and architecture. Do you remember the swine flu, H1N1? Back during that time, around 2009, I was working at a software company. I was sitting at my desk enclosed by kind of these blue pastel cubicle ...

Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming? Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a "live coding" environment, where the program's output updates as the pro...