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Learning Verilog and FPGA

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What a good debugger can do

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Grokking big unfamiliar codebases

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Programming as Play

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Compilers and IRs: LLVM IR, SPIR-V, and MLIR

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Cognitive loads in programming

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Programming breakthroughs we need

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ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like

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Designing Billions of Circuits with Code

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Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

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Incremental Learning

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How to control the metacognition process of programming?

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Programmable Notes

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Verilog Is Weird

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Literate programming is much more than just commenting code

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How do you visualize code?

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Finding your home in game graphics programming

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Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)

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Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (1988)

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An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software

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What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)

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Snap is Scheme disguised as Scratch [pdf]

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To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)

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Bret Victor: Learnable Programming (2012)

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Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015)

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Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Code Reading Club (2020)

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Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust

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Fundamentals of Optimal Code Style

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Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1: Learning hardware design as a software engineer

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How to teach technical concepts with cartoons

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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

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Programming is boring art

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Don't Make Students Use Eclipse

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Math is an insurance policy

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Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014)

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Many games are held together by duct tape

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Learning hardware programming as a software engineer

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FPGA Design for Software Engineers

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Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded

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Computer Modeling Should Become a Popular Hobby

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Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

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Game Loop

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Algorithms tutorial series for beginners

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Log driven programming (2013)

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Fuzzyset – A Human-Readable Interactive Representation of a Code Library

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A Pedagogical Analysis of Online Coding Tutorials [pdf]

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You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI

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Paper is dead, long live paper programming

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Nobody's just reading your code

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The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland

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How to teach technical concepts with cartoons

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Seymour: Live Programming for the Classroom

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Clocks for Software Engineers

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Fun vs. Computer Science (2016)

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Text Is Keeping Kids from Coding

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The Beauty of Programming (2001) [pdf]

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Syberia – Make R a production-ready language for deployable machine learning

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Open source electronic lab notebook

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Flex

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Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weird (2013)

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Software Development at 1 Hz

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Principles for Programming Languages for Learners

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Literate programming: presenting code in human order

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The brain is not a computer

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Creativity is a great motivator

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Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering

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Visual Programming Is Unbelievable (2015)

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Decompiler Design

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Learning programming at scale

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Blog Little Things

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Teach, Don’t Tell (2013)

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Coding is not the new literacy

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Coding is not the new literacy

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Generating code

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Pain we forgot

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You Don't Read Code, You Explore It

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Toward a better programming

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2014 Seven Day Roguelike Challenge

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Learning to Code vs Learning Computer Science

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Watsi x Goldbely Holiday Gift Package

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Teach, Don't Tell

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Memorizing a programing language using spaced repetition software

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How do we read code?

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The future is specific

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A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of

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Tricky Programming Concepts Aren’t

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So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs

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Want to write some code? Get away from your computer

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A full TCP/IP stack in under 200 LoC (and the power of DSLs)

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Donkey code

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Things software developers should learn about learning

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30 Years of Decompilation and the Unsolved Structuring Problem: Part 1

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Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls?

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Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)

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Enlightenmentware

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