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My Top Programming Books Read in 2015

Posted by Jacob Zimmerman on 2016-01-30
Posted in: Books, Functional Programming, Java, Kotlin, Python, Testing. Tagged: . 3 Comments

Apologies

This is coming out late on its release date, and to those who actually care (as few in numbers as those people may be), I’m sorry about that. I had taken most of the week off of work in order to work on stuff like this blog and finishing the peripheral parts of my book, so of course I wasted all away all that time with things that didn’t really matter 😛

Intro

Anyway, this post is a list of my favorite programming books that I read this year! They’re grouped into categories for your convenience (and my OCDness). Continue Reading

Kotlin-like Builders in Java and Python, Continued: Additional Parameters

Posted by Jacob Zimmerman on 2016-01-23
Posted in: Functional Programming, Java, Kotlin, Meta, Python. Tagged: , , , , , , , . 3 Comments

Intro

In today’s article, we follow up last week’s article about making Kotlin-like builders in Java and Python, expanding the builder APIs to take some of the optional parameters for more flexibility. We continue on with our HTML example, trying to add tag attributes, such as class, id, and style. Continue Reading

Mimicking Kotlin Builders in Java and Python

Posted by Jacob Zimmerman on 2016-01-16
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Intro

Kotlin is probably my favorite language right now, and possibly one of the coolest things it has to offer is type-safe builders, built upon several features (explained in a bit). I find myself really really wanting to have this feature in my other two primary languages, Java and Python. This article explains what I believe to be the closest we can get to having type-safe builders in those languages Continue Reading

Excerpt from Python Descriptors: A Comprehensive Guide – Chapter 12: Other Uses of Descriptors in the World

Posted by Jacob Zimmerman on 2016-01-02
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Intro

Today, I give you the second (and last) excerpt from my book, and it’s the last chapter. It brushes over some of the cooler examples of descriptors out there. It’s a short sample, and I feel kind of bad not giving you something juicier, but too much of the rest of the book has references to other chapters and discussed ideas, making it difficult to use as an excerpt. Continue Reading

Excerpt from Python Descriptors: A Comprehensive Guide – Chapter 6: Which Methods Are Needed?

Posted by Jacob Zimmerman on 2015-12-26
Posted in: Books, Descriptors, Python. Tagged: , , . 1 Comment

Intro

Last week, I posted that I would put up some excerpts from my book, Python Descriptors: A Comprehensive Guide, this week and next week. This is the first of two.

This chapter of the book has one of my greatest epiphanies in it: “unbound attributes”. For context, I decided to provide the entire chapter here, instead of just putting the excerpt about unbound attributes in. Despite the context, this chapter assumes you at least know the descriptor protocol and its basics. If not, check out Raymond Hettinger’s relatively short article on descriptors. Enjoy! Continue Reading