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Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
Challenging projects every programmer should try
Austin Henley
I work on AI + developer tools and blog my adventures.
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A project with a single 11,000-line code file
I was responsible for a critical software project written by non-programmers a decade ago.
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Challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try
Bored of algorithms? Here are my recommendations that are exciting, understandable, and sometimes even useful!
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Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
I challenged myself to make a tiny subset of Python in C.
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Implementing Cosine in C from Scratch (2020)
How does the math library's trigonometric function work?
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My first superoptimizer
I heard about these mythical programs that find optimal code through a brute-force search, but I didn't know how they worked. So I made one.
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The future of programming: Research at CHI 2023
Research on programming tools published at CHI 2023.
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Optimizing a bignum library for fun
Can I make math operations run 100x faster on really, really big numbers?
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Programming as Play
I often want to program something just for fun without any expectations. But why? Well, a recent scientific paper investigated this idea of programming as play.
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Mapping latitude and longitude to country, state, or city
I made a library that takes GPS coordinates and gives you the state.
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Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler (2020)
Make your own BASIC to C compiler in Python.