Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.
Much writing about learning and teaching focuses on teaching skills to novices. I’m thinking a lot about teaching experts. Who is writing and talking about that?
Read ArticlePreviously, there were quite a few limitations on the expressions that could be used to initialise an attribute in an object. None of these limitations were mentioned in the overview...
Read ArticleIndu uses an English-like syntax with very little use of symbols, unlike many other programming languages. This is intentional, but also quite controversial amongst professional programmers. I believe that using...
Read ArticleProgramming languages, like real languages, are big, sprawling things. You can’t expect to design a big, sprawling thing right. Instead, a language will adapt as it’s used; new features will...
Read ArticleThe recent tragedy of the Windrush Scandal has unsurprisingly prompted calls for identity cards to be introduced in the UK. The UK, like most English speaking countries, has no existing...
Read ArticleIf you’ve built a service with an API, that service is under continuous development and the service has consumers then you’re going to need to version that API. You’ll want...
Read ArticleTarah Wheeler tweeted a thread recently. Seems pretty clear-cut, right? Agenda-less meetings are a waste of everyone’s time and demonstrate that you don’t know how to get things done. Glib,...
Read ArticleWhen I was a fresh university computer science graduate a company I applied for set me a problem, and got me to write some code. This made so much sense...
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