Archive - Programming Feedback for Advanced Beginners

Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners #7: Auto-project-builder

I’ve just published project #7 in my series “Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners”, in which we build a tool from scratch that creates…

Aug 12, 2020 •

July 2020

PFAB #19: Working with raw bytes

(You can also read this post on my blog)

Jul 26, 2020 •

PFAB #18: Adventures in shrinking serialized data

Last time on Programming Feedback for Advanced Beginners we wrote a program that used pre-computation to speed up Justin Reppert's ASCII art program.

Jul 13, 2020 •

June 2020

May 2020

PFAB #15: Don't overwork your functions

You can also read this post with prettier code formatting on my blog.

May 17, 2020 •

PFAB #14: Evil `eval`

Programming Feedback for Advanced Beginners reader Frankie Frankleberry writes:

May 3, 2020 •

April 2020

PFAB #13: When code is too clever to be clean

I just finished reading Robert Martin's Clean Code, one of the better-selling programming books of all time.

Apr 19, 2020 •

Systems design for Advanced Beginners

You’ve started yet another company with your good friend, Steve Steveington.

Apr 6, 2020 •

March 2020

Programming Videos for Advanced Beginners

The onset of a global pandemic hasn't left me as much time as I would like for writing blog posts, but if you're looking for a great way to spend 2 or 3…

Mar 21, 2020 •

PFAB #11: Separating logic and data

Mar 8, 2020 •

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