Computer programming develops problem solving skills, helping students see that all problems — no matter how large — are sets of smaller problems. I’ve promoted…
Poet Ponders the Digital
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I used to consider software development one of the few careers, outside librarians and medical examiners, surely insulated from the extroverts too often in charge…
Pittsburgh TechFest was Saturday, June 1, 2013. For me, this is like going to a county fair or theme park… minus the junk food I…
I overuse some words and phrases in my writing. Most writers have some problem words. It isn’t that the words should never be used, or…
In my earlier posts (I, II, and Intro), I explained that I’ll be using Xcode to learn Objective-C and the Cocoa Frameworks to learn about…
If you’re going to develop iOS or OS X applications, you’re going to be using Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE). The blog post is…
If you want to learn Objective-C, it helps to know C. Learning C — or reviewing it — is a good way to become familiar…
As readers of this blog know, the more I delve into programming, the more convinced I am that it should be a standard school subject…
Are computer languages inherently “artificial” and “pure” — either like Esperanto or a dead language, such as Latin? Or, are computer languages as much “living”…
Learning to Code: Comments Count
Published by Poet Ponders on May 16, 2013I like comments in computer programming source code. I’ve never been the programmer to claim, “My code doesn’t need comments.” Maybe it is because I’ve…