CS DIY

CS DIY

• UC Berkeley CS61A: SICP in python etc.

• MIT SICP

• CS61A repo

• CS61A repo2

open source computer science DIY

Book: A philosophy of software design, John Ousterhout, 2018

How to design software systems to minimize their complexity.

• When developing a module, look for opportunities to take a little bit of extra suffering upon yourself in order to reduce the suffering of your users.

• it’s more important for a module to have simple interface than a simple implementation

• The best way to eliminate exception handling complexity is to define your APIs so that there are no exceptions to handle: define errors out of existence

• Overall the best way to reduce bugs is to make software simpler.