20 Questions
For conquering languages
About a year ago, I tweeted this,
Back in school, we had this lecturer who was just plain awesome. 😍 It was programming and before exams, she'd give out a list of 20+ programming exercises. Each of these, a potential examination question, and your 4 to 5 exam questions would actually come from among that list.
I understood what she was doing much later. You see, those exercises contained questions that spanned the entire syllabus. You'd think she was giving you expo, but by the time you had learned how to solve those exercises, you'd basically learned the course.
In this article, I am making a commitment to provide 20 questions, for beginners, and intermediate programmers, that will guide you in achieving some level of confidence with programming languages.
Thanks Shalvah for letting me bounce ideas off you, and suggesting questions 16 and 17.