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Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman is fundamentally a book about lifelong learning. It is about treating software engineering as a craft you may never master; in fact it may never have been mastered before. Perhaps it simply cannot be mastered in the traditional sense of the word …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
As a software engineer, I sit and stand still for large chunks of the day. Unfortunately, I'm also a big fan of playing video games, which traditionally falls into the same category of physical exercise. Much to avoid repetitive stress injury and everything else that comes along with sitting at …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
When it comes to programming languages, I consider myself something of a polyglot. To me, learning a new language is one of the most enjoyable things in all of software engineering. This is especially true when you start to venture into new paradigms; going from procedural to functional, functional to …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
Another year, and a few new papers published on my favorite project: RepoBee. We made a hat-trick and appeared at ITiCSE 2021 for a third year in a row (see ITiCSE 2019 and ITiCSE 2020), but this time we managed to sneak in two papers. One paper that I presented …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
In 2019, I presented RepoBee at the ITiCSE conference in Aberdeen. This year, ITiCSE went virtual, but RepoBee still made an appearance in the new tools and tricks section with a small, two-page paper. Although I let my co-author Ric Glassey deal with the virtual presentation, I'm still quite proud …