This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond perfectly straddles the line between Programming By Stealth and Lite. While it’s definitely a nerdy discussion topic, Bart Busschots is really just telling a story. He starts by explaining how he ended up a computer scientist essentially by accident, and tells us about a fantastic CS professor he had who inspired him through an assignment about a game called 8 Queens. He tells these stories as a way to explain that when I used the Terminal and egrep to help me solve the game Wordle a few weeks ago, it wasn’t really cheating. I think whether you’re a programmer or not, you’ll enjoy hearing Bart explain why.
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