https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
that link mentions many more of his achievements.
Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
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Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#52I suggest you add Software Tools in Pascal to your list of books to podcast about. Also by Kernighan.
I own a copy of that book and think it is good.
Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#53Another author and his books in the same category of excellence as Kernighan and his books, is Jon Bentley and his books Programming Pearls and More Programming Pearls. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley_(computer_scient...
Added to the backlog! As our audience grows, we've debated doing live backlog grooming on YouTube so that listeners have a chance to chime in and voice their opinions on what we should read.
Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#54This book is foundational; all Programmers (especially beginners) should read it. Like all Kernighan's books, the language is simple, concise and precise focusing on the foundations/essentials with no fluff and all in a little over 200 pages. Understand the principles from the examples shown here and then apply them in your own context. The beauty of K&P's books is that they do not overwhelm you with theory but show…
Thanks for the heads up on "The Unix Programming Environment!" I've been searching for a book with a concise explanation on how to write a compiler, and you can't go wrong with one from Kernighan!
Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a clever interview question, but wouldn't that suffer from diffing origin/main? Or was this a in person / on screen interview with no git history?
I would say that I would hire that person if that was the solution. That said maybe repo wasn’t included in interview. (Would be even better if person figure out how to diff against a new clone)
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Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a clever interview question, but wouldn't that suffer from diffing origin/main? Or was this a in person / on screen interview with no git history?
It was an on-screen virtual interview, so while I believe they had scrubbed the Git history, you weren't allowed to look it up.
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Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#57Another author and his books in the same category of excellence as Kernighan and his books, is Jon Bentley and his books Programming Pearls and More Programming Pearls. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley_(computer_scient...
Added to the backlog! As our audience grows, we've debated doing live backlog grooming on YouTube so that listeners have a chance to chime in and voice their opinions on what we should read.
I think that's a good idea.
Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#58Another author and his books in the same category of excellence as Kernighan and his books, is Jon Bentley and his books Programming Pearls and More Programming Pearls. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley_(computer_scient...
Also his earlier slim Writing Efficient Programs book. What this teaches you is how to think about efficiency from the top down with an emphasis on Algorithm and Language and hence useful to all programmers. Pair it with modern books on efficiency which deal mainly with compiler-level/OS-level/Processor-level performance techniques by Agner Fog, Fedor Pikus etc. and you get a complete picture.
Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#59This book is foundational; all Programmers (especially beginners) should read it. Like all Kernighan's books, the language is simple, concise and precise focusing on the foundations/essentials with no fluff and all in a little over 200 pages. Understand the principles from the examples shown here and then apply them in your own context. The beauty of K&P's books is that they do not overwhelm you with theory but show…
Can only second you. His style is by far my most favorite among all other technical authors. And thanks for the reminder, time to get another one of his books.
Re: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]
#60Love Kernighan, such a humble person. In one of the videos that he was featured on in youtube, he spoke about how he was solving a difficult problem in his thesis which turned out to be NP-complete before the theory had been fleshed out. Emailed him for his thesis and got a pretty quick response, was a really interesting read.
> Love Kernighan, such a humble person.
A perfect example: Just about 3-4mins into the interview he said that the motivation behind the book was "kind of pretentious".
To me, and many others, his opinions on programming are amongst the most interesting and useful. In large parts because he can convey them so clearly.