All programmers are familiar with the common data types found in many languages like integers, strings, floats and so on. After we learn about them, we go about our work, using those data types in our code. But have you ever thought about defining your own data types?
You get better just at programming just like how you get better at anything else -- by practicing. The question is: how to practice in an effective way?
There are two ways to practice of any skill. One is practicing individual techniques, the second way is to practice putting it all …
Unconference? What is that? And why should you attend?
Everyone knows what a conference session is:
Often …
I'm doing the online Technology Entrepreneurship course offered by Stanford this semester. For the first assignment, all participants are grouped with random team members into teams of 10. The assignment asks the teams to brainstorm 5 good startup ideas and 5 bad (eg: selling ice cubes in Alaska) ideas and …
I don't get it.
Many people who attend Chennai Open Coffee Club want to start on an idea or a business. But when it comes to figuring out how to make money, so many people get embarrassed and say "I dont want to run a business to make money, I …
Understanding the Y Combinator - a function that takes a non-recursive function and makes it recursive. Written in Python after reading The Little Schemer book.
Conflict. It's that word again. We have all faced it and most of us would rather not discuss it, but sooner or later you will be faced with such a situation and it's helpful to be able to understand it. In this article, I will discuss what I understand by …
Based on my experiences, my list would go like this -
Have empathy. This is the most important. Learn continuously. This is the second most important. Apart from these, you need
So I arrive at Paris CDG from Heathrow, disembark from the plane and enter the terminal. There is a sign saying "Baggages", so I follow that and come to an immigration desk. Immigration takes all of 20 seconds before I am in the baggage collection area.
Before me is baggage …
This article used to be 6 part series of articles on recursion that I had on my old blog. I have combined the series into a single article and posted it here. This article is still dated for the 12th of April, 2008, which is when I originally posted this …