Interview Highlights for Third Coop
I was applying and interviewing for 4-month coop positions starting in September for the past several weeks and after a dozen interviews, I came to... Read more
Author: Lenny Cheng
Thoughts on Teaching
Teaching is more than speaking. To teach means to pass on our knowledge about a subject to our audience, who might have less experience than... Read more
Space
Space – a vast expansiveness of nothing – has intrigued our imaginations for untold generations. Philosophers, astronomers, and laymen alike have pondered about the meaning... Read more
Success and Hidden Shortcomings
This weekend, I played Halo 4 co-op with a friend (Composer – Legendary with Mythic skull). At the start of the level, we were making... Read more
Understanding the Purpose
A couple months ago, while in school, I stumbled upon a lesson that helped me get through a challenging course. Before learning this lesson, I... Read more
The Fundamentals
If we had one minute to build as tall a marshmallow-toothpick tower as possible, we may use 90% of our time building the tower and... Read more
Systems -> Interfaces as Goals -> Implementations
In the book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, author Scott Adams recommends thinking... Read more
Decoupling in Programming and in Life
Disclaimer: Although I’ve studied basic design patterns and will soon be studying refactoring techniques, I am not an expert on software engineering (yet). This article... Read more
Thoughts on Programming and Life
Is programming fun? I’m going to exaggerate the next two statements: Some view programming as a mystical skill, an esoteric form of knowledge understood only... Read more
Similarities between English and Programming
I recently attended an English lecture about writing good English. While listening to the professor, I suddenly realized that some strategies for writing good English... Read more