Tag: Programming
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When your client demands Swift — Erica Sadun
Erica makes some very good points. Swift looks like an awesome programming language, but it seems to be a “moving target”. For example, getting rid of a basic function println which all of the introductory Swift texts taught . What Apple should have done is deprecated the features in Swift 1 that were removed in…
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CODR.TV: Habit 1: Pair Programming
I don’t know if I could do pair programming. I do agree that peer reviews of code is essential to ensure that your programs are doing exactly what you want/need them to do as well as to ensure that they are doing the processing efficiently. Source: CODR.TV: Habit 1: Pair Programming
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Debugging Diversity Teaser #1 – YouTube
Looks like an interesting documentary. IT needs to encourage more women to join their ranks.
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TrumpScript is a programming language that thinks and acts like Donald
A team of coders has released a new library on Github that contains a (sort of) working programming language built on Python that mimics Donald Trump. This is too funny! Source: TrumpScript is a programming language that thinks and acts like Donald
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JetBrains Toolbox – Many IDEs for one price
If you develop for Windows, Mac or Linux, I’d like to suggest a very good deal on developers tools. For one price, you can get the following products: IntelliJ IDEA ReSharper ReSharper C++ dotTrace dotMemory dotCover AppCode CLion PhpStorm PyCharm RubyMine WebStorm DataGrip I love IntelliJ IDEA which is much easier to get accustomed to compared to…
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Cobollin’ – YouTube
Awesome video about my “native” programming language! Had me laughing out loud. You won’t see Cobol in operating systems or games, but if it’s business related and need to process lots of data, Cobol is your language.
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Visual Studio 2015 now Supports COBOL and you Can Make Desktop and Web Apps with It – Canadian Developer Connection – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
I’ve worked as a Cobol programmer for over 20 years and I do not see it going away any time soon. While there are many efforts of companies to move from Cobol and update their applications, there really aren’t many programming languages which can process huge amounts of data as efficiently. Cobol is the back-end…
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Why Programming is Difficult
Source: Why Programming is Difficult A good article about why programming is difficult. Many times we don’t have the time needed to go back and learn from our problems. The testing for the implementation went great, done in a few hours. When it came time to run the same process/programs in production, there were problems…
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Top 10 Fundamental qualities of good programmers
Top 10 Fundamental qualities of good programmers. Good article on assets that good programmers should have.
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Why can’t programmers program?
Why can’t programmers program?. The logic for this is really very simple. I was able to do in both Swift and JavaScript, which I am learning, in hardly any time. Because of the variations in language structure, I couldn’t exactly use the “for(int i=0;” exactly, Here is my code in JavaScript: for (i = 0;…