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The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books
The Benjamin Franklin method for programming books: read a code sample, close the book, and rewrite it from memory to truly learn it.
Jimmy Koppel
Essays by Jimmy Koppel (MIT PhD, founder of Mirdin) on software design, code quality, abstraction, and the ideas behind better programming tools.
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The Practice is not the Performance: Why project-based learning fails
Why project-based learning fails to build programming skill, and what works instead: break skills into parts and drill them with fast feedback.