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How to stay up to date as a programmer and developer [duplicate]
So I am going to college right now for computer science, and I am reading a lot of books on different languages that have nothing to do with my courses in school, and I found out that I am completely ...
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Is Non-Deterministic Resource-Management a Leaky Abstraction?
From what I can see, there are two pervasive forms of resource-management: deterministic destruction and explicit. Examples of the former would be C++ destructors and smart pointers or Perl's DESTROY ...
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combining ruby and C++
I've been discussing a conceptual project with a friend of mine and the the most effective way we've seen of doing it is writing the engine in C++ while the logic would be done in Ruby.
However, we ...
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Getting my younger brother started on programming [closed]
My younger brother is 13 years old, I started programming when I started to develop Android applications when I was 15, last year my brother gained an interest in it and he would always pestering me ...
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Explanation on how “Tell, Don't Ask” is considered good OO
This blogpost was posted on Hacker News with several upvotes. Coming from C++, most of these examples seem to go against what I've been taught.
Such as example #2:
Bad:
def ...
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I'm a student learning C++ and I've recently found out about Ruby. Would learning (some of) Ruby help me with C++ or would it just confuse me?
As the title says, I'm a student that will be starting my second year of C++ very soon. I've discovered Ruby, however. While I've heard much buzz about the language before, I've disregarded it because ...
