What was going to be a short rant about the ongoing discussions around grade inflation has turned into a 3,000 word epic. My apologies.
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It's not often that you actually have to think about more interesting day-to-day algorithms like shuffling a playlist. That's what I want to talk about today!
Today, just about anybody can pick up a language like Python or JavaScript and make something cool. Yet, the culture of the super genius programmer persists and leaves a lot of us in the field...
The Difference Between str() and repr() in Python: A Design by Contract Perspective
Recently, I was giving a lecture about Java's "common" methods (i.e., all of the methods of Object), and I had epiphany about how Java only has toString() while Python has str() and repr(). So, it...
Magic numbers are numerical constants that have no clear meaning in the code and therefore make code harder to read. Anything that makes code harder to read is something we can use to obfuscate our...
Type hinting is a nice tool that dynamic typing languages employ to make code more readable. As you can probably imagine, readability is not the goal with obfuscating code, so we ought to get rid of...