Programming Videos and Tutorials
This is the video of the July 2011 meeting of the DC Ruby User Club. It contains two talks: * “Be a Good Ruby Citizen: Use and contribute code like you give a damn” by Jim Gay – Jim is a contributor to dozens of ruby projects on GitHub. He …
This video is a short interview with Martin Odersky, the father of Scala. Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages, enabling Java and other programmers to be more …
This first video in a Python Fundamentals training course covers: * Getting started with the interactive interpreter * Types: Strings, Integers, Floats, Complex * Variables: Defining, Dynamic Typing, Strong Typing, Internals * Simple Expressions: Boolean Evaluation, Truthiness, Branching, and Block Structure
A performance bug is a minor glitch that does not alter the correctness of a program but does cause it to consume excessive resources. This talk begins with sketches of two tiny such bugs in large software systems. The next part of the talk surveys a variety of little mistakes …
This video presents how Ruby and Rails have been used to help a children’s charity in Cambodia. It discusses about the unique challenges you face working with a charity, and over such a long distance. It talks about how you can help and what other opportunities exist for coders to …
A short demo of the refactoring capabilities of Python Tools for Visual Studio. Python Tools for Visual Studio is a free and open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft’s Developer Division. PTVS enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to build Python code …
