A blog about software engineering, programming languages and technical tinkering
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
About a month ago I signed myself up to do a talk at a Python meetup hosted by HiQ. I brazenly set my topic as Under the Hood of CPython, thinking I had sufficient understanding of its inner workings to produce a riveting talk. As I started preparing the talk …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
I've been learning Rust on and off for the past few months, and The Rust Programming Language has been my primary learning resource during this time. It's a great introduction to the language, and is even freely available online.
Here, I'm reviewing the 2018 print version. Although a little bit …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know is a collection of short essays by experienced programmers. And by short, I mean short: 1-3 fairly tiny pages a piece. If you're on a journey to become a software engineer then this book will give you a crash course in terminology you should …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Software engineering is a lifelong journey of learning. Regardless of how dedicated you are in your learning, there will never come a point where you have learned it all. As such, it's important to use all learning resources available to us. As is evident from the themes on my blog …
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 …