Introduction :: Eloquent JavaScript
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Introduction :: Eloquent JavaScript
You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
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4 FUNCTIONS, SCOPING, AND ABSTRACTION
John Guttag • Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python, second edition: With Application to Understanding Data
The reason I think this is that the hard part of coding has always been humans getting clear on how they want a thing to work and then presenting this to a machine for execution. This is why we write code in programming language rather than natural language; programming language is an extension of formal logic and lets humans express with exactitud... See more
Zach Lloyd • Ask & Adjust: The Future of Productivity Interfaces
That’s because first computer culture, then our broader culture, has been colonized by people for whom the only truth is the power of the computer. For them there is no mystery that can’t be solved with computers, eventually. There is nothing to say except that everything will someday be quantifiable and calculable, and that the best course of acti... See more
E.W. Niedermeyer • Why Is Writing Hard?
As computer algorithms increasingly control and decide our future, ‘Hello world’ is a reminder of a moment of dialogue between human and machine. Of an instant where the boundary between controller and controlled is virtually imperceptible. It marks the start of a partnership – a shared journey of possibilities, where one cannot exist without the o
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