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Exercises in Programming Style

Henrik Warne

In the book club at work , we recently finished reading Exercises in Programming Style by Cristina Videira Lopes. The book consists of a simple program implemented in 33 different programming styles. The inspiration is a book from the 1940s by the French writer Raymond Queneau called Exercises in Style.

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What if we rotate pairs every day?

Martin Fowler

When pair programming, it's important to rotate the pairs frequently, but many organizations that do pair programming are reluctant to do that. ” and worked with three teams through an exercise of daily pair rotation. Gabriel Robaina and Kieran Murphy ask the question: “What if we rotate pairs every day?”

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?? How To Use Exercism To Learn Programming Languages

Xebia

Want to learn a new programming language, but don’t know where to start? Exercism might be what you’ve been looking for… Exercism Simplifies Learning a Programming Language. What is the last programming language you learned? The idea behind it is to make mastering programming fun, and accessible to anyone.

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Health tech startup Bold raises $7 million in seed funding for senior-focused fitness programs

TechCrunch

Bold , a digital health and wellness service, plans to prevent chronic health problems in older adults through free and personalized exercise programs. From that information, Bold creates a personalized program that ranges from a short, seated Tai Chi class once a week, to cardio and strength classes meeting multiple times each week.

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Deal Dive: Elder tech is expanding beyond reactive solutions

TechCrunch

Bold creates personalized exercise programs for seniors to reduce injury. It's one of the latest companies expanding the eldertech sector.

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Programming: Math or Writing?

Henrik Warne

Is programming like math, or is it like writing? I think there are elements of both in it, even though programming is a discipline of its own. Maybe it will even lead to a better understanding of what programming is. A program is an instruction on how to solve a problem. To us programmers, our programs feel real.

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What is functional programming?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It has long seemed to me that functional programming is, essentially, programming viewed as mathematics. Many ideas in functional programming came from Alonzo Church’s Lambda Calculus, which significantly predates anything that looks remotely like a modern computer. Mathematically, this is nonsense. .