CS202 Episode 2: APIs and Program Boundaries, or How Software Talks Without Everyone Crying
Software starts simple, then one day it has to talk to other software politely, through boundaries, contracts, and APIs that…
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Episode 6: Processes, Threads, and Concurrency Basics, or How One Machine Does Many Things at Once and Somehow Blames You When It Goes Wrong
Processes, threads, and concurrency explain how computers juggle many tasks at once, until shared state walks in and…
Episode 5: CPU Architecture and Performance Basics, or Why Your Processor Is Fast, Weird, and Occasionally Lying to You for Your Own Good
Your CPU is not just fast. It guesses, overlaps, caches, waits, recovers, and occasionally behaves like it read tomorrow’s calendar…
Episode 4: Assembly Language and the Machine Model, or Programming With Fewer Comforts and More Consequences
Assembly language is where code loses the comfy shoes and starts showing you the actual machinery underneath…
Episode 2: Bits, Bytes, and Data Representation, or How Everything Becomes Zeros, Ones, and Increasingly Specific Lies
Everything looks calm until the colors, objects, and bodies start snapping into impossible order and you realize the whole room is thinking…
Episode 14: Intro to Object-Oriented and Alternative Design Styles, or Why Not Every Problem Needs a Tiny Corporate Org Chart
OOP still runs half the software world, but it is no longer the only grown-up in the room. Here is when it helps and when it…
The Annotated Table of Contents for the Graph Theory Mini Series, or Six Ways Graphs Have Been Quietly Running Your Life
Your GPS, social feed, build system, and SQL are all doing graph theory. This table of contents shows why that matters when…
Episode 10: Files, Input, and Output, or How Programs Stop Living Entirely Inside Their Own Heads
Episode 10: how programs read, write, save, and survive reality without tripping over files, users, formats, and their own confidence.
Episode 7: Recursion and Problem Decomposition, or How to Solve a Problem by Making It Smaller Until It Stops Arguing
Recursion explained without the usual pain: what it is, why it still matters, when it shines, and when it absolutely needs adult supervision.
What Am I Missing About Graph Theory (and Why FAANG Keeps Bringing It Up)?
Google asked me graph questions. Amazon asked me graph questions. At some point I started to suspect this wasn’t a coincidence and that maybe the problem wasn’t the graphs. Maybe the problem was me. I always thought graph theory was that dusty corner of computer science where math majors go to feel superior. Nodes, edges, … Read more