Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

ICPC Computer Programming Contest Prep

Problem Solving in Computer Science

Fall 2022 -- CSC 2700 Section 01 (1216 Patrick Taylor, 6:00 PM - 7:50 PM)



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Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
--Joshua Bloch
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
--John Ciardi
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
--Theodore H. White
First solve the problem. Then, write the code.
--Waseem Latif
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
--Unix Fortune
There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.
--Jon Erickson
Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
--Keith Bostic
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
--Larry Niven
Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.
--David Thomas
Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown