Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.
--Louis Srygley
What is a university/college when the students lose interest?
--Isaac Traxler
Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.
--Max Kanat-Alexander
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
--Donald Knuth
Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown
It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good.
--Hary Chapin
'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
--George Bernard Shaw
Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.
--Prince
...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