Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

When in doubt, do something.
--Harry Chapin
Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
--Chris Pine
The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.
--Benjamin H Bratton
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist
--Pablo Picasso
Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
--Joshua Bloch
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
--Larry Niven
Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown
One knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
--Brian Kernighan