While everyone is so excited about eclipse, please remember there are other fine IDEs and text editors.
Venkat Subramaniam
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Venkat Subramaniam
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- During live coding during the workshop, multiple developers said there is a bug. Naively I was looking at the code until I turned around to see what they were pointing at.
- Me: “what’s the safest programming language to use during COVID times?” Son: ? Me: “Python” Son: “Why?” Me: “It insists on proper spacing.”
- "I've set the wedding date. I've not asked her out yet."---how software projects are managed.
- Things I wish they taught us at school: - start early - take small steps - it does not have to be right in the beginning - ask for feedback and apply it - don’t be shy to ask for help at every stage you are stuck - teach what you know to others since you learn in the process
- Being a programmer means: * waking up each day to tackle problems * find workarounds and evaluate tradeoffs * get yelled at by compilers and tools * figure out interesting solutions * feel exhilarated when things seem to work * then, go to bed thinking I don't know a sh..zzzz
- Cheers to everyone who loves to code.
- Live coding during presentations? 1. Don't do it 2. Really, don't 3. OK, if you still insist, practice, practice, practice, and please be prepared to let go and move on when things begin to fall apart.
- I am teaching a workshop on functional programming. An hour and a half into it, an attendee asks “is there a break?” Me: “In FP there is no break.”
- It takes less effort and skill to write a lot of code and a lot more effort and skill to write minimum code.
- No good programmer retires thinking “I wish I had implemented more design patterns.” Let’s solve real problems using simple pragmatic solutions.
- “I’m almost done”—Programmer.
- .DS_Store files are like roaches.
- Humans write bad code. … AI trains on code written by humans. … Humans complain that AI is generating bad code. That’s called karma, baby.
