Code for a Living Archives

code-for-a-living October 29, 2019

My Most Embarrassing Mistakes as a Programmer (so far)

As a computer science professor, I encourage students to learn from mistakes, whether their own, mine, or famous examples. I feel it’s time to shine a light on my own mistakes to keep myself humble and in the hope that someone can learn from them.

Ellen Spertus

code-for-a-living October 29, 2019

Stack Overflow Podcast #126 – The Pros and Cons of Programming with ADHD

Learn about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, a fake boyfriend app, and how to stay productive while working from home.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living October 25, 2019

The puzzle masters behind Facebook’s Hacker Cup explain how they craft questions

We go behind the scenes with two developers who create the coding questions for the annual Hacker Cup.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living October 23, 2019

Why Devs (Should) Like Estimates

The impetus to provide an estimate for development work most often comes from non-developer stakeholders in your organization. Learning to do it well can improve collaboration and coordination across departments, making everyone happier and more productive.

Yaakov Ellis Principal Web Developer & Community Advocate

code-for-a-living October 22, 2019

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder In The World – by Ben Popper

A black belt is just a white belt who never quits. How bad could I possibly be at this stuff?

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living October 22, 2019

The Stack Overflow Podcast – Episode #125: ‘Tilde Club’ and Mechanical Keyboards

We talk Tilde Club and bitcoin spam, then go deep on mechanical keyboards with Cassidy Williams.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living October 17, 2019

IMHO: The Mythical Fullstack Engineer

This is the first in an ongoing series from developers expressing their opinions on various topics in the software engineering and computer science world. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the author. If you disagree, drop a comment and let us know your take—respectfully, of course. I suspect that a lot of people…

Ryland Goldstein Head of Product at Temporal

code-for-a-living October 11, 2019

C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Answers Our Top Five C++ Questions

Mariel Frank and Sonny Li, authors of Codecademy’s Learn C++ course, recently got a chance to interview with Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++. As part of the interview, he answered the highest voted C++ questions on Stack Overflow. While the whole interview is worth a read, Codecademy has generously allowed us to republish…

Sonny Li Senior Curriculum Developer, Codecademy

code-for-a-living October 9, 2019

Lessons from Design School for Software Engineers

When I graduated from college back in 2014, I did so with two bachelor’s degrees, one in computer science and the other in design. I originally chose design because I wanted to learn the necessary design skills in order to improve the usability and appearance of my personal projects. While I originally joined the program…

Iheanyi Ekechukwu Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

code-for-a-living October 7, 2019

Einstein Analytics and Go

It’s rare that we get a chance to directly compare two technologies against each other for the same task. But sometimes the stars align, either because you start experiencing negative effects from your current stack, new technology appears that meets your exact needs, or the scale and feature set of your project outpaced the tech on hand.

Guillaume Le Stum

code-for-a-living October 1, 2019

Introducing The Overflow and Cassidy Williams

Today we’re launching The Overflow, a newsletter from Stack Overflow that brings together great questions from our community, news and articles from our blog, and awesome links from around the web. Our goal is to produce a collection of links about the world of software development that entertains, educates, and informs. It’s content by developers,…

Cassidy Williams Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Co-curator of The Overflow