Links tagged “programming”
78 links, newest first.
medium.com
An early introduction to WebAssembly as a low-level binary format for the web, complementing JavaScript and letting other languages run in the browser.
lwn.net
Coverage of Jacob Kaplan-Moss's PyCon 2015 keynote, which argues that programming ability is normally distributed rather than split between rockstars and incompetents.
catonmat.net
First instalment of a hundred-book list, reviewing five favourite programming, computer science and mathematics titles.
paulgraham.com
Notes for a 2001 MIT panel on programming language design, arguing languages should target good programmers and favour brevity and user control.
paulgraham.com
Essay arguing that companies working in less mainstream languages such as Python attract better programmers, since only enthusiasts learn them by choice.
blog.codinghorror.com
Post holding up the playful Beagle Bros software of the Apple II era as a model for interactive, animated textbooks on the web.
bergie.iki.fi
Announcement of the public beta of Flowhub, a visual editor for flow-based programming that drives NoFlo, MicroFlo and other runtimes over a shared network protocol.
siek.blogspot.co.uk
A primer on the notation of programming language theory — inductive definitions, grammars, operational semantics and typing rules — worked through the simply-typed lambda calculus.
talks.golang.org
Rob Pike's Waza 2012 slide deck separating concurrency from parallelism and showing how goroutines, channels and select compose concurrent Go programs.
syntax-k.de
The Go programming language is actually cooler than I had previously thought http://t.co/cBKXLtBz
geek-directeur-technique.com
RT @tetue: documenter, réfléchir avant de coder : http://t.co/iKfLWVIX
iotic.com
Super cool -- algorithmic font generation: http://t.co/h1lU4abg (via @tom_nichols)
blog.tplus1.com
Replaces nested boolean logic with a run of early returns that reject invalid cases one at a time, cheapest check first — the guard clause pattern.
catonmat.net
I decided to write an article about a thing that is second nature to embedded systems programmers - low level bit hacks. Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner. Instead of performing some operation (such as counting the 1 bits in ...
coboloncogs.org
Spoof site for a fictional COBOL web framework, served as a flickering green-screen mainframe console in ASCII art with F-key navigation.
acm.timus.ru
Problem set of the Timus Online Judge, over 1,200 competitive-programming problems browsable by difficulty, topic and originating contest, with online submission.
0xfe.blogspot.com
Personal blog on audio processing, music notation and software engineering, whose front page now points readers to its new home at mo.town.
geosoft.no
A numbered checklist of rules for writing unit tests — keep them small, fast, fully automated, independent of each other and readable.
debian.org
Chapter 12 of the Debian Reference, in French — shell scripting, interpreted and compiled languages, debugging with gdb, Make and Autotools, and building Debian packages.
