A series of mixes intended for listening while ${task} to focus the brain and inspire the mind.

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Many introductions to Rust already exist. Most of them are aimed at C++ programmers. That makes sense, but lots of folks are coming to Rust from other languages now.

My current1 day job is mostly Perl. It occurred to me that an introduction to Rust aimed at people who already know Perl could be useful.

You know one language and want to find the corresponding operator or function in another language

sprintf-like

sprintf Awk, C, C++, F#, Maple, Matlab, merd, OCaml, Perl, Perl6, PHP, Pike, Ruby
printf  Haskell
%       Python, Ruby

There’s a lot of talk lately about API-first as an approach to design and development. While there are many paths to API-first, usually the people driving this initiative within their organizations have job titles like API architect, API designer, and API platform leader. It makes sense because they are most invested in the efficiency, interoperability, and quality of the organization’s APIs.

https://www.postman.com/api-first/

Research means more than fact-checking

When I first used GitHub Copilot, I said it “essen­tially tasks you with correcting a 12-year-old’s home­work … I have no idea how this is prefer­able to just doing the home­work your­self.” What I meant is that often, the focus of program­ming is not merely producing code that solves a problem. Rather, the code tends to be the side effect of a deeper process, which is to learn and under­stand enough about the problem to write the code. The authors of the famous MIT program­ming text­book Struc­ture and Inter­pre­ta­tion of Computer Programs call this virtuous cycle proce­dural epis­te­mology. We could also call it by its less exotic name: research.

Task Write a program that prints the integers from 1 to 100 (inclusive). But: for multiples of three, print Fizz (instead of the number)...

• Source Code Pro
• Cousine
• Ubuntu Mono

But coding != terminal != text!!

As a former student of his I can recommend Jeff Erickson’s free online algorithms textbook if you’re looking for more sources. :)

https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

very good books. I also recommend Sedgewick's course on coursera

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

Would also strongly recommend the Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena
Used this book during AoC and for prepping for interviews.

I hold the opinion that state machines are underrated - GitHub - cpressey/Facts-about-State-Machines: I hold the opinion that state machines are underrated

I Spent 7 Months Gathering The Very Best Free Courses I Could Find On The Internet. Including life-changing Harvard, MIT, and Stanford courses..

Harvard’s CS50 Computer Science Course
https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science

MIT’s Machine Learning Course
https://www.edx.org/course/machine-learning-with-python-from-linear-models-to

Apple’s Develop For iOS Course
https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/app-dev-training/

AWS’s Cloud Practitioner Course
https://www.edx.org/course/aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials

University of Michigan’s Successful Negotiation Course
https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation-skills

RIT’s Storytelling in the Workplace Course
https://www.edx.org/course/storytelling-in-the-workplace-3

Bocconi’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Course
https://www.coursera.org/learn/private-equity

Stanford’s Quantum Mechanics Course
https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-for-scientists-and-engineers-1

Given a positive sorted array a = [ 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21 ];
Define a function f(a, x) that returns x, the next smallest number, or -1 for errors.
i.e.
f(a, 12) = 12
f(a, 13) = 12

Why Binary Search?

Binary search is one of the most difficult “simple” coding problems. The algorithm looks trivial, but it’s a devil to implement. Jon Bentley, a former CMU professor, wrote in his book Programming Pearls that only 10% of professional programmers are able to implement it correctly, including PhD students.

Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.

The example that Crockford gave in his presentation on how to create objects is the way developers should use for creating objects. It does not require the 'class' keyword or the 'prototype' property for defining an object. It also does not require using the 'new' keyword for instantiating a new object.

function createThing(name) {
    function getName() {
        return name;
    }

    return Object.freeze({
        name,
        getName
    });
}

const myThing = createThing('My Thing');

https://youtu.be/XFTOG895C7c?t=2807

Kent C. Dodds’ .filter() Trick Will Change How You Use JavaScript. This one-liner uses the Boolean constructor to magically remove all falsy values from an array ✨.

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1009918457394225152

const plugins = [
    isProd ? optimizePlug : null,
    isProd ? prodOnlyPlug : null,
    !isProd ? testingPlug : null,
    usefulPlug,
].filter( Boolean );

This introductory computer science course covers algorithms, data structures, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development.

One great, free option is “CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python.” This course recommends CS50x as a pre-requisite, so this is a great next step if you’re interested in AI.

https://cs50.harvard.edu/ai/2020/

In these two books, the authors of four dozen open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to these books provide unique insights into how they think.

If you are a junior developer, and want to learn how your more experienced colleagues think, these books are the place to start. If you are an intermediate or senior developer, and want to see how your peers have solved hard design problems, these books can help you too.

Elixir receives two awards.
Its resiliency, functional-first approach, and amazing ecosystem makes it the Best Language for Building Web APIs.
OTP and the actor model make Elixir the Best Language for Building Concurrent and Distributed Software. Unlike its imperative cousin Go, software written in Elixir can scale horizontally to thousands of servers, and comes with fault tolerance out-of-the-box.