"Vitamin R goes straight to the head. Ruby will teach you to express your ideas through a computer. You will be writing stories for a machine. The language will become a tool for you to better connect your mind to the world."
Slate compiles the mystery of _why. (
Previously).
posted by oulipian
on Mar 15, 2012 -
78 comments
What's a JavaScript Closure? Ever wonder about some of JavaScript's more advanced and esoteric features? Nathan Whitehead's interactive tutorial explains and walks through each of these concepts one step at a time. At the end of each lesson, you are encouraged to write short snippets of code demonstrating the concepts that you just learned, which are then automatically checked for errors and verified.
Perhaps you're new to JavaScript, or programming in general;
CodeAcademy offers similar interactive tutorials that will teach you the basics, and hold your hand along the way. Perhaps you'd rather learn at a more even pace; CodeAcademy's
CodeYear will introduce you to one new concept every week throughout 2012.
[more inside]
posted by schmod
on Jan 20, 2012 -
42 comments
"This is the story of when I re-wrote the Lotus Notes Formula Engine.... So here was I was, offered this position that I clearly wasn't qualified for. I had no experience with language runtimes or compilers, I knew very little about C and didn't know anything about C++, I had never dealt with platform byte ordering and packing and all the other issues associated with writing something for eight different operating systems, I had never even used proper version control. But none of that mattered to me. It seemed to me like an amazing opportunity and I would be doing exactly the kind of stuff I enjoy most..."
posted by grumblebee
on Nov 24, 2007 -
64 comments
DailyWTF is a "Programming Bloopers" repository and forum, collecting, dissecting and making good fun of badly written code. Programmers can appreciate their fellow coders'
strange or
plainly funny problem solving techniques. Sometimes programmers will
square the wheel while reinventing it. Or take the
best practices to the insanity level.
Some programming knowledge required.
posted by nkyad
on Apr 27, 2005 -
21 comments
CSS on Demand allows users to set several preferences for how they want to see your site, rather than just using one of your themes via a switcher. Kind of like Matt lets you do here.
Perl. Free.
Try it out.
posted by Su
on Jan 28, 2003 -
15 comments
CodeDoc, a new exhibition at Whitney Artport, forces us to view the scripts and codes that generate software art before seeing the “art.” The other aspect of the curatorial premise: each artist's code must create art that connects three points in space.
[via rhizome].
posted by hama7
on Sep 23, 2002 -
12 comments
While poking around today, I found a link to
Treefold, which isn't all
that impressive in and of itself. The reason for my interest was that it's the first use I've come across of the
Proce55ing language, which is a sort of continuation of
John Maeda's teaching language,
DBN(Design by Numbers). While still not ready for general release, it's grown a lot since the last time I looked at it.
posted by Su
on Sep 10, 2002 -
11 comments
Disassembled. Assembler.org ("making art with machine code") is no more. Quoth the
Zeldman: "Lately we feel like Smokey the Bear - and the forest fires are winning."
posted by fraying
on Jul 6, 2001 -
74 comments
