Programming
Interesting C++ Tutorials
There is a resurgence of popularity in C++. Lately I have been dabbling in the language. While there is a bit of a learning curve with rvalues and move semantics, there are some nice features in C++11/14 Here are some interesting tutorials covering various topics I recently found.
ReadProgramming in the Large
It has been a while since I wrote an original blog post, but lately I have been reflecting on the idea of what it takes to write large programming projects. Any of the ones I have tried have been long abandoned, but part of me wants to find one that I would be willing to take to completion, and put it out there in public.
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Currently I am working on a project for fixing a touch typing habit I have. I type by pressing the shift key always using my left little finger, rather than the proper way of using the shift key in the opposite hand to the one typing the character (e.g. the left shift key should be used when typing 'I', and the right shift key when typing 'X' on a QWERTY keyboard).
ReadAre Computers Still Fascinating?
Reading through a mother's experience of exploring [Haskell with her ten year old son](https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/teaching-haskell-to-a-10-year-old-day-1/) has me reflecting on my own lifetime and childhood experiences with computers and programming. The Haskell language by many, is often seen as archaic and too academic, but that didn't stop this ten year from intuitively making a stab at some of the aspects of prefix notation and the Hindley–Milner type system.
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