Knuth: Literate Programming

This book is the first in a series of eight volumes that contain archival forms of my published papers, together with new material.

Let’s explore the universe of programming resources together

by Quincy Larson Let’s explore the universe of programming resources together There are a lot of free programming resources out there. Here’s a list of more than a thousand free programming books. Here’s a list of hundreds of free online university c...

On learning programming in an age of LLMs

Open answers to a reader's letter.

Learnable Programming

Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming?

Reflections on a decade of coding

I've been programming professionally for about 12 years. Here are some of the things I worked on in the last 2 years.

A quote from Andrew Quinn

One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the …

Learning to code is overrated: An accomplished programmer would rather his kids learn to read and reason

Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York City’s public schoolchildren will take computer science classes. But as a career programmer who founded two successful software…

👋 Hi. I'm Sam.

I write visual and interactive guides to programming topics.

Coeffects: Context-aware programming languages

Interactive essay that explains theory of coeffects and lets you type-check and run sample programs.

Its Time for a New Programming Language

Today, when compared to any other point in programming history, we find ourselves spoiled for choice when it comes to programming…

EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

:books: Freely available programming books

Reflections of an "Old" Programmer - Ben Northrop

Framing our programming careers in terms of knowledge accumulation and decay can yield some interesting insights.

Motivating Adult Learners by Introducing Programming Concepts with Scratch

Novice programmers usually fail to combine abstract concepts and knowledge into program design, even though they know the syntax and semantics of individual statement. Adult novice programmers with little computer background knowledge might face more ...

Typechecker Zoo - Stephen Diehl

Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future