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baydonFlyer | 1 year ago | on: Modern Software Engineering on YouTube [video]

Dave Farley, along with Kent Beck, Trish, Kevlin Henney, and others have renamed, and relaunched, the 'Continuous Delivery' channel as 'Modern Software Engineering'

baydonFlyer | 1 year ago | on: AI makes tech debt more expensive

Click bait headline. It is an opinion piece; it may be true (or not) but there is not references or clear justifications.

baydonFlyer | 2 years ago | on: Next gen campaign to offer free micro:bits to all primary schools across the UK

UK digital creativity and computing education to receive major boost as BBC Education, Micro:bit Educational Foundation and Nominet join forces again to deliver free micro:bits to primary schools.

baydonFlyer | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?

As someone who teaches C to professional engineers, I'd recommend "Hacking: The Art of Exploration" by Jon Erickson. The first 100+ pages are the most succinct coverage of C I've ever come across (if you can already program in other languages).

Also, by following many of the exploits covered in the book, you get a real grasp of what is happening at the machine level - which is one of the major reasons you'd choose C over something more modern.

baydonFlyer | 6 years ago | on: State of Software Engineers 2019

If only the term "engineer" was a protected term (as it is in Germany) then we'd understand programming isn't engineering and this report would be titled "State of Programming" - and still be a click-bait report (I'm guilty as charged!)

baydonFlyer | 9 years ago | on: A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie

I wish that was the case, as in the "first things you learn in C" unfortunately in most cases I come across it's not and many C programmers maybe know that very basics (int* ptr = arr;) but not much beyond that.

baydonFlyer | 9 years ago | on: A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie

True C++, especially with C++11/14 is growing, but based on all the recent studies (by people like embedded.com) C is still a long way ahead of C++ in the embedded space.