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Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programm

Episodes

Total: 183

Teaching Kids to Code

2018/11/13

Hey all! First of all, sorry for the delay in publishing Oct's episode. There are some pretty intens

Hey everyone! This episode is an absolutely fascinating interview with Jonas Bonér, creator of Akka.

2018 Mailbag

2018/9/6

Hey all! Since setting up the #questions channel in discord, a lot of you have written some phenomin

Concurrency

2018/7/31

What is a thread/process? How can you speed up a program that requires a lot of compute resources? H

Technical Arguments

2018/7/1

Sunday is a non-traditional day for a new episode and this is definitely a non-traditional episode!

Web services are for much more than building websites: they are one of the most common techniques fo

Julia

2018/5/2

Julia may be the most requested language we have ever received on the show, so Patrick and I took so

Code Documentation

2018/4/4

Writing documentation is an art and there aren't many cut-and-dry rules that will guarantee the righ

Arduino

2018/3/5

Ever want to build your own robot? We explain how to do this using Arduino! Show notes: http://www.p

Today we discuss Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts with Amy Wan, CEO of Sagewise. Amy has a legal b

How can you use all of the computers in your lab/office at the same time to speed up tasks? Today we

Internationalization

2017/11/28

How can you maintain a separate version of your app/site in all langauges and locales? How do you ha

Office Spaces

2017/10/30

Today, we are going to talk about... office space! Not the hilarious 1999 movie directed by Mike Jud

COBOL and Mainframe Computing

2017/9/28

Did you know that there was a programming language co-invented by a consortium of government offices

Today we chat with Mark Engelberg about his background in software engineering and game design. Show

Today we chat with John Sonmez about soft skills: communication, self-motivation, learning to learn,

Cryptocurrency

2017/6/30

Today we explain how cryptocurrency works and why it is possible to buy and sell electonic currency.

Code Reviews

2017/5/30

In this episode we explain how code reviews work and why they are so important. Show notes: http://w

In this episode we interview Josh and Adam from Kobiton. They describe the challenges with releasing

Cryptography

2017/3/30

In this episode we explain how data is encrypted and decrypted, and how you can use encryption in th