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Generating Art With Code: Doodling, Math and Cornucopias

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I have a compulsive need to create art; I also have a lifelong love for coding. The two passions are compatible and interrelated. Coding and Math can generate artistic visions. In this post, I show how I created a program to draw doodles formed by tangles of “Cornucopias” swimming in space.

Doodling for Life

If you are a reader of my blog, you know that every Tuesday I publish a hand-drawn meeting doodle from my Moleskine. Recently I have been doodling an interesting shape that, for some reason, I enjoy looking at. I call it a cornucopia because it resembles an elongated and twisted goat horn. You can see an example here. ... 

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7 Ranks of Coderhood: Coder, Programmer, Computer Scientist, Developer, Engineer, Architect

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The Many Names of a Software Builder

In my blog, I have been using the terms coder, programmer, software developer and software engineer interchangeably. I do that mainly to avoid linguistic repetitions. However, I believe that there are differences between those words and similar others.

In this article, I will discuss a set of nouns commonly used to refer to someone who writes code. I will also give my interpretation of how those terms relate to engineering skill levels.

Interpretation of the meaning

The definitions that I will present here are not official. There are no formal definitions that I am aware of or trusted body to create such a thing. However, there are lots people with strong opinions on the matter. My understanding of what each of the terms implies is based on three decades spent in the software industry, but I fully expect that other people will disagree with my interpretation. ... 

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The Future of Software-Making, 50 to 100 Years From Now

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Software Making is Just Starting

Building software is still in its infancy. Today we write a line of code at the time to describe what we believe a machine should do to resolve a problem. Developers spend most of their time sorting out minute details of behaviors. They do so to ensure that a task is executed precisely in a well-defined and understood way.

The unfortunate reality is that this method doesn’t scale well. The world needs software, but today’s software creation process is slow and complex. We’ve seen this in the past with other forms of art and craft. ... 

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Hottest Computer Languages on the Job Market for 2017 [infographic]

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This is the first CoderHood Index infographic. It shows the hottest computer languages based on the Job Markert for ads posted on ZipRecruiter and Indeed as of July 2017.

Feel free to download and re-post this infographic on your website or blog. The only thing I ask in return is a link to this post from the page on your site or blog containing the infographic. Thank you.

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Making babies, emotions and code reviews

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Making a baby by typing code

A man approaches you holding a baby. He looks at the bundle with loving eyes before turning his gaze to you. “What do you think?”, he says, “He is my baby! I bathed him, dressed him and brushed his hair. I just finished, barely in time for the deadline. Isn’t he beautiful? What do you think?”

You study the child for a few minutes, without saying a word. The man waits, standing in front of you, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, moving his gaze from you to the creature in his arms, back to you. ... 

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