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February 22, 2020

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder : Complexity is the Constant

Why bother to learn a programming language when it will be out of date by the time I master it?
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February 13, 2020

Ben Popper is the worst coder in the world: Something awry with my array

Our intrepid new coder meets his first data structure. With an array of concepts in front of him, will he push his learning until it pops for him?
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code-for-a-living December 26, 2019

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder in The World of Seven Billion Humans

This is part 3 of an ongoing series detailing my journey from total noob to hobbyist coder. I share my thoughts as I learn the basics of programming. You can find the rest of the series here. To help get me into the programming mindset, or maybe to cleverly sabotage my work ethic, a colleague recently…
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code-for-a-living November 8, 2019

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder In The World: Quantum Edition

It feels like programming would be a lot less intimidating if the vocabulary used to describe operators was closer to what the average person learned in school. Learning to concatenate a string sounds difficult. Putting a bunch of words together in a certain order, now that sounds approachable!
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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?
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