Posts tagged programming

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Lessons Learned: The Evolution of an Undergraduate Robotics Course in

Seven years ago (2016), we began integrating Robotics into our Computer Science curriculum. This paper explores the mission, initial goals and objectives, specific choices we made along the way, and why and outcomes. Of course, we were not the first to do so. Our...

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.

Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”

The Recurse Center

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

The Good Research Code Handbook

This handbook is for grad students, postdocs and PIs who do a lot of programming as part of their research. It will teach you, in a practical manner, how to organize your code so that it is easy to...

Free source code hosting - Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a alternative to GitHub. It's very similar. But the one big different is that even Public repositories are available free.

Apipie/apipie-rails

Ruby on Rails API documentation tool. Contribute to Apipie/apipie-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tsung

Tsung demo site

CodeCombat - Learn how to code by playing a game

Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners. Learn Python or JavaScript as you defeat ogres, solve mazes, and level up. Open source HTML5 game!

The Ruby Bibliography

Fun list of papers, reports, and dissertations related to ruby from academia.

Best programming books EVAR!

A good list. I know every single one and would generally agree with it. Some books are too high in the list and some too low. But an excellent starting point.

MockMechanics

Very cool and clever visual programming.

kettanaito/naming-cheatsheet

Some ideas on naming. Doesn’t take into account conventions or idioms from specific languages.