Programming Videos and Tutorials
Marc Andreessen started an interesting discussion with his article “Why Software Is Eating The World” in the Wall Street Journal. The message is that software is changing the business models of all industries. This is backed by the fact that 70% of all Fortune-1000 companies have vanished from this list …
Just as Ruby is great for getting a new web project off the ground and into production, Ruby is equally awesome for quickly building games up from scratch and continuing to iterate on them. This talk explores the basics of how computer games work, shows the tools available for building …
As software developers working on a team, we all make technical decisions. What is the best way to implement this? Where should this function live? Is this library worth using? Some decisions, though, are larger, riskier and more important than that.
As a software system grows in size, it becomes progressively difficult for programmers to understand the underlying architectural intent and to extract the architectural knowledge they need to implement changes successfully. Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence has shown that such knowledge tends to be tacit, stored in people’s heads, and scattered across …
As a conceptual framework, functional programming empowers us to write software that is modular, highly reusable, and easy to reason about. But practicing this discipline in Scala comes with a number of difficulties and idiosyncrasies that need to be addressed. This video presents what functional programming is, brings up some …
This is a quick-fire, whistle-stop, shallow-to-the-point-of-vacuous tour through the history of programming and programming languages, from the surprise twist at the beginning, through the Golden Age of LISP, C and Smalltalk, right up to the present day.
