"How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?" - Edsger W. Dijkstra
Some great accounts to check out: 1. @DeeperThrill 2. @LifeMathMoney 3. @BotDavidGoggins 4. @BGZeroTwoOne 5. @corporatemach 6. @advthinking 7. @wisdom_theory 9. @PersuasionProf
Basics of most programming languages * Variables * Data types * Conditionals (if - else) * Loops (for - while) * Functions * Arrays * Dictionaries * Classes and objects That's enough to build many interesting applications
You: "I just coded a real masterpiece! Only I and God two know how it works." Also you, 3 months later: "Now only God knows."
I don’t see why developers make six figures, all they need to know is: - Linux - Bash - Go - Python - JavaScript and frameworks - Git - Docker - Kubernetes - Terraform - Distributed Systems - AWS - GCP - Prometheus - Grafana - Being On-call - Security
The best thing about being a developer is that you can work from anywhere at anytime The worst thing about being a developer is that you can work from anywhere at anytime
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." - Dennis Ritchie
Given an array nums containing n distinct numbers in the range [0, n], return the only number in the range that is missing from the array. int f(const vector<int>& nums) { int res = nums.size(); for(int i = 0; i < nums.size(); ++i) res ^= (i ^ nums[i]); return res; }