Interesting Talk: "OOP básico, lo que crees saber I"

I've just watched this interesting talk by Xavi Gost:

• OOP básico, lo que crees saber I 

It's the first part of a talk that took place during the Software Craftsmanship Barcelona 2013.
Don't let the name mislead you because its contents are advanced.

Interesting Talk: "Design Patterns And The Proper Cultivation Thereof"

I've just watched this interesting talk by Corey Haines about design patterns:

• Design Patterns And The Proper Cultivation Thereof

MOOCs: Introduction to Systematic Program Design - Part 1 in Coursera

Last month I finished this great Coursera course by Professor Gregor Kiczales from the The University of British Columbia:

• Introduction to Systematic Program Design - Part 1

This course is a 10 week introduction that presents a design method that enables you to approach the design of complex programs systematically. I saw a previous version of the course and felt curiousity about it.

Their method shows how to model the information in a problem domain, how to structure program data to mirror that information and how to further structure the data to lead to a well organized program. It also teaches how to distinguish those parts of a program that are naturally data driven, from those that should use an alternative algorithmic approach. The method also uses a first test approach to unit-testing.

The course goes slowly and Professor Kiczales explains all concepts very well. Moreover, their design methodology with its design recipes and templates helps to make explicit many of the unconscious design decisions experienced programers often do. For that reason I think it's a great introduction to programming.

In my case, having some previous programming experience, I found that applying the method systematically for most of the small programs done during the course was a bit overkilling. However, in the end, it paid off when we started working with generative recursion to produce fractals and with bactracking searches. Following the recipes of their method proved to be really useful.

Another reason to do this course was the languages it uses: several teaching languages that are subsets of Racket (a Lispy language). This makes this course a gentle introduction to the basics of functional programming.

It gave me the chance to practice a lot with recursion, immutability and higher order functions, and it also helped me to get into the "Lisp cycles":

It was a great course. I think that Professor Kiczales and his team did a really great work and I'd like to thank them and Coursera for giving us this opportunity.

I'm looking forward to start the second part.

Interesting Talk: "OOP is Dead! Long Live OODD!"

I've just watched this incredible talk by David West:

• OOP is Dead! Long Live OODD!

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