https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/education/ Recent content in Education on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:56:04 -0800 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2017/cppcon-2017-talks/ Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:56:04 -0800 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2017/cppcon-2017-talks/ I spent a recent holiday listening to several CppCon talks. I’m hooked! I was impressed by the generally high quality of the talks. The lack of “use my/my company’s framework which is so awesome!” talks was refreshing. In addition, the use cases where C++ trumps most competition are often either performance sensitive, or correctness sensitive under strong constraints. Of course, this means contending with the syntactic and semantic complexities C++ throws at you. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2016/introduction-to-programming/ Sat, 15 Oct 2016 18:31:34 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2016/introduction-to-programming/ Every Introduction to Programming class starts with a programming language, introduces various concepts like variables and functions and leaves with an understanding of some simple algorithms. Mine was no different. We used C and spent a lot of time trying to make students comfortable using Linux. This leaves a lot to be desired. Software engineering is hard and laying out certain principles at the beginning can help tremendously. This is a short list of supplemental resources I would have liked to have when I started programming.