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Intro The Proxy is one of the most popular design patterns in most programming languages. A Proxy is simply an object that sits between some client code and a service object. The client code deals directly with the Proxy, instead of the service objec...
title: Career advice for junior developers published: true description: tags: codenewbie, beginners, career, programming I had a nice chat this morning with our new intern, who's due to start working with us this summer. One of the things he asked m...
Our assignment Our company has just gone on a huge recruitment spree and has just hired 100,000 new employees. The HR department has sent us a spreadsheet with the employee details, asking us to save them in the company staff database. After having a...
FizzBuzz is a simple kids game, often used as a test at programming interviews. It goes like this: "Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of 3 print “Fizz” instead of the number and for multiples of 5 print “Buzz”...
A couple of my Python colleagues tried to impress me today with Python's named slices feature. The way it works is like that: s = list('helloworld!') => ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!'] WORLD = slice(5, 10) s[WORLD] => ['w'...
title: The top 5 programming books of all time published: true description: The best programming books of all time tags: book, programming, software What makes a programming book truly great? IMHO, two things: Content quality Content delivery Ther...