Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

...I’m not saying simple code takes less time to write. You’d think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn’t an accretion of code, it’s a distillation of it.
--Robert Nystrom
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
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something.
--Thomas Edison
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter
The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.
--Steve McConnell
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points
--Alan Kay
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
--Alan Kay