The capabilities of LLM tools have expanded significantly over the past year. We’ve moved beyond prompt engineering (i.e., provide a prompt then get a response) to context and agentic engineering. We now have the ability to be more specific and…
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code – Part 2
This week we covered chapters three and four — Sensing and Separation and The Seam Model — of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. Sensing and Separation This statement strongly resonated with Houston: “One of the big problems…
Working Effectively with Legacy Code – Part 1
This week we covered the preface & introduction, and the first two chapters (Changing Software and Working with Feedback) of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. Preface & Introduction I had a similar experience getting into writing code…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 11
This week we covered the last two chapters A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topics today were space constraints and techniques for…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 10
This week we covered chapter 18 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topic today was graphs. Jamie did the examples in…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 9
This week we covered chapter 17 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topic today was tries. Wikipedia says trie can be…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 8
This week we covered chapters 15 and 16 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topics today were binary search trees and…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 7
This week we covered chapters 13 and 14 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topics today were Quicksort and linked lists….
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 6
This week we covered chapter 12 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. Our topic today was dynamic programming. The book gave an…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 5
This week we covered chapters 9, 10, and 11 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. The topics discussed: Stacks Queues Recursion Crafting…