With the England vs. Germany game around the corner this coming Wednesday, I caught a sniff this weekend of a new book called “Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.” I ...
For many years–decades actually–I was a big fan of beautiful code. I read almost everything by Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and P. J. Plauger. This passion for elegant code was an attempt to ...
When I played One Dreamer‘s demo back in June, I figured this could be something special. It looked to be a game about a failing game developer, presented using a combination of point-and-click, and ...
What is the best way to teach young students the basics of coding? Not with a screen, says Kim Smith, SM ’17, but with wooden toys. That’s why she and Yonatan Cohen launched Learning Beautiful to ...
A couple of years ago I did a Q&A with Q&A with Christopher Seiwald who is chief technology officer for Perforce Software. Seiwald made a comment that he thought code should be more than just ...