Programming memes #2
Just reacting to some fun programming memes, to start 2024 with a laugh. Links:
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Kent Beck on Cannon TDD
In a recent article, Kent Beck has detailed what he means by Test Driven Development (TDD). This video is an analysis an commentary of his definition, contrasting it with the three laws of TDD as expressed by Robert C. Martin, and drawing from my own experience of practicing and teaching TDD. Links:
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The Impact of AI Code Assistants
Will AI code assistants replace programmers? Will they allow non-programmers to create applications? Or will they have no effect? And what are we missing about AI Code assistants due to the current hype? In this episode, Alex analyzes the current state of AI code assistants and comments on the possible effects on the development flow,
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Programming Memes Reaction
Just reacting to some programming memes. Sources:
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Corn on a cob and Programming Styles
Does the way you eat corn on a cob relate to your preferred programming style? This article says it does, so let’s look into it! Link: http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts-eating.html?m=1
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Programming with Hidden Types – A Good Idea?
When you think about type safety, what do you think about? Alex asked this question on social media, got some interesting answers, and ended up defining a few principles for a style of programming with “hidden types” as follows: A) I don’t define types for method and function parameters, or class membersB) I validate a
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“Nullable” Testing Patterns
A few weeks ago, James Shore has published a novel idea in the area of automated testing. The “Nullable” testing patterns offer a way to incrementally write tests on legacy code and to avoid mocks and design changes for testability, by allowing any class, to implement in addition to the production code a “nullable” implementation
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NSA Deems C++ `Memory Unsafe’ – What’s Next?
After NSA published a paper in which it recommends using memory-safe languages and thus excluding C++, Bjarne Stroustroup and the Direction Group have activated and changed their stance on using static analysis tools as the primary way to prevent memory safety issues in the language. In this video Alex discusses the possible effects of the
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Polyglot Programming – Pros and Cons
Is it a good idea to learn more programming languages, or should you focus just on mastering one of them? What would be a useful attitude towards polyglot programming in the different stages of your career? We discuss about polyglot programming from our experience and try to give advice to programmers from all stages of
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The sorry state of frontend code
Let’s be honest, we do not treat frontend code the same way we treat backend code. And it shows. We talk about applying rules of clean code, about keeping it simple, about writing unit tests. Yet, when it comes to writing frontend code, we skip all those rules that we usually self impose. We convinced
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