When I was a kid, learning how to program wasn’t straight forward. I didn’t have anyone to guide me and there weren’t old programming manuals lying around my house; I had myself and the internet….
I had a wonderful discussion with a Miss Whitney Garrett about a killer feature that is conspicuously absent from Amazon’s Kindle software — stylus support. She mentioned how great it would be to be able…
Python’s lack of empty set literals bothers me. In a language known for its orthogonality, it’s an odd omission. The chart just feels unbalanced to me. dict() = {} set() tuple() = () list() =…
An initial prototype of a tool I’m calling NapkinCalc (inspired by the OSX application Soulver). My goal is to build a simplified, web-enabled version of Soulver meant for portable back-of-the-napkin calculations.
Today the above advertisement for code.org went viral for advocating that programming be taught to everyone because of the way it impacts thinking. Not only does learning how to code change your thinking, it empowers…
