Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
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When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.
--Larry Wall
There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.
--Jon Erickson
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live
--John Woods
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter
I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it.
--Robert C. Martin
Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
--Keith Bostic