Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

ICPC Computer Programming Contest Prep

Problem Solving in Computer Science

Fall 2020 -- CSC 2700 Section 01 (Patrick Taylor 1218, 6:00 PM - 7:50 PM)

Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree.
--Professor W.
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
--Paul Graham
So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack
--Kernighan Brian
Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown
'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
--George Bernard Shaw
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
--Alan Kay
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
--Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility.
--Dennis Miller
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
--John Ciardi
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
--Chris Pine
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively
--Dalai Lama XIV
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
--Donald Knuth