Archive for the ‘Learn Programming’ Category
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Much thanks to Pascal VanHecke, who pointed me to his review of the web video services that judges them on their suitability for screencasting. As Pascal discovers, Revver.com and Blip.tv are the only video services with really adequate quality for screencasting. Revver in particular has nice video quality. My only ...
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
For an example of the inadequate video quality I was talking about in the previous post, check out my 13 part tutorial on how to edit MediaWiki wikis. I made this tutorial to help others contribute to the project.
In all, this tutorial runs an hour and a half. Considering the ...
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Seven rants about successful programming give or take two.
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
This obnoxious come-on actually gets it mostly right about programming myths:
Myth #1: Computer programming is for technology geeks.
The reality is that the Project Manager, Business Analyst, Tester, Manager, Sales Executive, Recruiter, Technical Writer, Web Developer, Web Designer and other roles in the programming industry require different personality types ...
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
I've decided that the opening course, data representation, should sneak in the basic concepts of hash functions and cryptography:
Number representation A discussion of bits and how they can be used to represent numbers.
Text representation How bits can be used to represent text.
Introduction to ...
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