A Little Calculus(papl.cs.brown.edu)

134 points by __rito__ 3 years ago | 37 comments

Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)(cs.unc.edu)

942 points by vismit2000 7 months ago | 437 comments

A university course page listing Rob Pike's five rules of programming on measurement, simple algorithms, and data structures, with notes relating them to Hoare, Thompson, and Brooks.

How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)(doc.ic.ac.uk)

30 points by downbad_ 6 months ago | 8 comments

Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines(susam.net)

167 points by hprotagonist 11 months ago | 50 comments

XOR(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

541 points by mariuz 1 year ago | 91 comments

Simon Tatham's long-form essay explaining the XOR operation in boolean logic and on integers, its properties, and applications such as cryptography, graphics, and swaps.

Show HN: Programming Is Easier Than Most People Think(easylang.online)

23 points by chkas 2 years ago | 22 comments