November 5th, 2019
Lambda Calculus
Lambda Calculus isn’t just a fancy word: it defines our software, our numbers and perhaps even reality itself.
March 27th, 2018Generative Testing - Stop Writing Unit Tests!
Ghadi Shayban demonstrates techniques toward achieving 100% code test coverage of code, libraries and APIs, without tedious test writing.
April 19th, 2016Functional Thinking
Concepts of functional programming is made much harder when the developer is also trying to learn a new language, like Haskell, Scala or Clojure at the same time. With that in mind, we focus on relating functional concepts in a common language: Java.
Apr 16th, 2016Parsing Text with a Virtual Machine
As the saying goes, all the good ideas in computer science came from the 1970s. We'll explore a new library for parsing text that calls upon an old, unconventional approach: compiling parsers to custom bytecode and then running it through an interpreter. Along the way, we'll learn about how PEGs fit a sweet spot between regular expressions and heavier parsers, and how Clojure is an ideal language for writing simple compilers.
May 1th, 2016So You Want to Learn Java?
Java is a great software development language. Used by millions of people daily, it's incredibly popular being the the primary language of businesses, Android software development and Minecraft. Java has excellent tool support, offering integrated debugging and many many libraries that can solve many many problems.
February 28th, 2017F# Type Providers
Introduced in F Sharp 3.0, Type Providers are components that provide types, properties, and methods to an application to facilitate information rich programming. In other words a type provider automatically exposes the types which represent provider’s data structures.
