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What’s a Turing Machine? (And Why Does It Matter?)

Cyclomatic Complexity — Programming Word of the Day

As programmers, we spend our days battling the enemy. The enemy is tough, devious and sneaky. The enemy entrenches itself into your own lines (pun not intended) only to be found when it’s already too late. This enemy is complexity. It…

Asynchronous programming with Kotlin and Coroutines — Lesson 2: Suspension Points

Why Recursion Is Less Efficient Than a Loop — Programming Word of the Day

Asynchronous programming with Kotlin and Coroutines— Lesson 1: Routines

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Here’s One Programming Paradigm you Probably Haven’t Heard of — Programming Word of the Day

What is Lazy Evaluation? — Programming Word of the Day

When a compiler encounters an expression, usually it tries to evaluate it. Evaluation is the process of getting the root meaning of a piece of code. The meaning of 5 + 3 is 8. Our brains also do this: when somebody tells you, "She's a…

Why JavaScript is an OOP Language (Even Though It Doesn’t Have Classes)

You probably know how OOP works. The class Dog inherits from class Animal, which means that if you have a Dog you access methods from Animal. This is actually just a subset of OOP. You can be object oriented…

Referential Transparency — Programming Word of the Day

I usually don’t wear a watch, but recently I found a watch I got as a gift at the bottom of my closet. I dusted it off, went to a watch repair shop to change the battery, and it’s ticking again. Wearing it for a few days, I noticed a…