Discussion Topics

• Silent Technical Privilege - easy for this guy to be accepted
• A Commencement Speech for Graduating 2013 CS Majors
• Reading Code
  • Code is not Literature
  • Reading, Writing and Code
  • Reading Code: A Computer Science Curriculum
  • How to Read Code
  • Reading Code (Embedded in Academia)
• Learning to Program
  • The Importance of Whimsy in Learning to Program
  • Calling all coders: How did you learn how to program?
  • Open CS degrees
  • What do you wish you'd known starting out as a programmer?
  • What are the top 10 websites computer science students must visit?
  • What are some good websites to learn data structures and algorithms?
• Programming Ideas
  • What are the genuinely useful ideas in programming?
  • WTFs by programming language repository on github, revisted: The most WTF-y programming languages
  • Things every practicing software engineer should aim to know
  • Coding consensus: 9 popular programming conventions
  • Arg! The 9 hardest things programmers have to do
  • Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code?
  • Visualizing Algorithms
  • Duff's Device - unrolling loops
• Programming Language Related
  • Is C Still Relevant in the 21st Century?
  • 15 things we hate about Java
• Programming Contest Related
  • What are the 10 algorithms one must know in order to solve most algorithm challenges/puzzles?
  • Dynamic Programming (DP): How can one start solving Dynamic Programming problems?
  • Should programming contests be considered harmful? Why?
  • Competitive Programming: What would you suggest for a team participating for the first time at the regionals?
  • What is the best source to learn graph theory for competitive programming?
  • Getting Started with the Sport of Programming
  • Is my competitive programming approach correct?
  • What are some good blogs for learning algorithms and competitive programming techniques?
  • What are systematic ways to prepare for dynamic programming?
  • What are some popular websites where people discuss algorithm problems?
  • Competitive Programming: What are some must-know topics in discrete math and probability for competitive programming?
  • ACM-ICPC: What are good ways to practice for ACM-ICPC as a team?
  • What is a good 6 month plan to start and progress through competitive programming?
  • How do you debug your code quickly in programming contest environments?
  • What are some macros that are used in programming contests?
• Does relying on an IDE for development make you a bad programmer?
• Scientists Begin Looking at Programmers' Brains: The Neuroscience of Programming
• Lies programmers tell themselves
• Ouch! 7 historical decisions that continue to pain programmers
• 0, 1, 2, Go! 8 bad habits you can blame on programming
• 7 habits of highly successful Unix admins
• Superclass: 14 of the world’s best living programmers
• Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities
• The Billionaire Mathematician
• Convincing your mind to be rational
• 7 Proven Ways To Write Emails That Get Replies, Backed By Science
• Slashdot - Just let me code
• Dr. Dobb's - Juust let me code
• Slashdot - Getting back to coding
• DR> Dobb's - Getting back to coding
• Videos
  • You Tube
    • Andrew Sorensen OSCON 2014 Keynote: "The Concert Programmer"
  • Ted Talks
    • David Kwong - Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it's magic
    • Ruth Chang - How to make hard choices
    • Christopher Emdin - Teach teachers how to create magic
    • Joe Kowan - How I beat stage fright
    • Sandra Aamodt - Why dieting usually doesn't work
    • Arthur Benjamin - The Magic of Fibanacci Numbers
    • Raffaello D Andrea - The Astonding Athletic Power of Quadcopters
    • Peter Singer - The Why and How of Effective Altruism
    • Ramsey Musallim - 3 rules to spark learning
    • Jonas Eliasson - How to solve traffic jams
    • Marco Tempest - A cyber magic card trick
• Quora
• What are some things that programmers and computer scientists know, but most people don't?