Working Through the “OO’s Small Classes and Short Methods” Exercise

In “Perfecting OO’s Small Classes and Short Methods “, Andrew Binstock describes the constraints of an Object Oriented exercise by Jeff Bay.
I may be three weeks late on the issue, but I had to wait to find the time to write a project using these restrictions. After all, one experiment is worth a thousand blog [...]

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Dijkstra, Math, and Communication

A competent programmer’s most important assets are –perhaps in this order– an excellent mastery of his native tongue and a considerable mathematical maturity.
~ Edsger Dijkstra: “E.W.D. 750: America’s Programming Plight“
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Lessons from `Saving’ Software Development

My post “How Reddit Will (Maybe) Save Software Development” went through a few iterations. It started as a condemnation of crappy computer books (lack of rigor). It then transformed into an encouragement of rigor in design and coding, and went through minor revisions.
I then started thinking about “internalizing the externality,” and either penalizing bad work, [...]

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