Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat have done some field work that claims to show that students aptitude for programming can be detected before a line of code is written. Their approach involves a giving the students a programming test before starting a programming course. I recall being given a Swedish test in junior school to determine my aptitude for French and German.
Who is LLM
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It's become a common habit for developers to give Large Language Models
(LLMs) a persona when working with them. I describe four of them, a
stubborn donk...
Innovation starts with consumers, not academia
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“All innovation comes from industry is just wrong, universities invented
many useful things.” But that’s not the argument. Nobody thinks that Knuth
contrib...
How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer
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An intriguing talk by Gabriella Gonzalez, delivered at Haskell Love 2020.
Based largely on the famous marketing book, Crossing the Chasm. Gonzalez
argues...
A paean to programming
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A Google search for something entirely unrelated led me to a very old issue
of the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper of the University of California,
Sa...
Protecting your business in the age of ransomware
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Ransomware is hitting close to home for organizations of all sizes and
sectors. With attacks making headlines daily, it’s no surprise that 62% of
surveyed ...
The case for strong leadership in agile teams
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The key to scaling a software engineering organization is stable teams. A
while ago I wrote about the need to focus on stable, autonomous teams.
Teams wi...
The redesigned Racket blog
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*posted by Matthew Butterick*
I love Racket. But a few months ago, I really wanted to kill this blog.
Why? Because who reads blogs, right? It’s like get...
10 Things I Learnt about Life from Masterchef
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OK, I confess, I watch Masterchef, the television reality show and cookery
programme. We record them on the Sky box and if I need to mindlessly zone
out,...
Declarative versus Imperative
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I responded to a recent discussion Declarative vs imperative programming on
the Types mailing list, but my post was rejected because of a bad mail
header. ...
New Book Available
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The new book, DSL Engineering is now available. You can get the print
version as well as the PDF via dslbook.org. Have fun with the book and let
me know wh...
Debug Mode is the Only Mode
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There has been a fair amount of discussion recently surrounding some of
Bret Victor’s talks and blog posts. If you haven’t seen these, I recommend
them hi...
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