Archive: July 17, 2006

Monday, July 17, 2006

1. Wes Felter:

   Saeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat: The camel has two humps [PDF]. Some people can learn to program and some can't. A UK graduate student thinks he has a test that can tell them apart, even before they've taken a day of classes. More interesting to me are the references asserting that "those who were successful (in programming) had a mechanical understanding of the way that the language implementation worked" and that "people who know how their programs work do better than those who do not". When I was taking CS (in Haskell, C, C++, Lisp, and 68K asm) I felt that this topic was virtually ignored, and Java must make it even worse today.

   To read.

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2. Some videos to watch:

   • DHH on Ajax on Rails
   • Visiting an Indian call center, on Conan O'Brian
   • An AOL user calls support to cancel his AOL account
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