We’re happy to announce a casual Thursday morning drop-in for our new Coffee & Whiteboarding series! These are in-person meetups that focus on chilling to coffee and learning at our own pace, with a focus the next few sessions on social algorithms, particularly around cliques.
- Sign up Thursday, August 22nd – https://lu.ma/15elstji
- And Thursday, August 29th – https://lu.ma/63kxcvnu
MAKE ALGORITHMS MEANINGFUL AGAIN
We think that programming is inherently fun, more fun than most any game. It pushes our minds and gives us fundamentals to tackle bigger problems. Algorithms are also great for learning new ways of doing things in different programming languages (I’m still totally confused about doing linked lists in Rust though)
Somewhere along the way job interviews have made algorithms a joyless, high stakes exercise. A lot of us never get to use algorithms in our daily work anyway, and they’re just plain fun.
STARTING POINTS
- UC Riverside: Introduction to Social Network Methods – http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/C11_Cliques.html
- Leetcode total noob entry to Graphs if you’re out of practice – Find the Town Judge
Just work your way backwards if you get confused or are rusty! We did this with Jade at the algebraic data types workshop in Rust at our women and non-binary hack night.
Inspiration: A shot from Spike Lee’s School Daze from American Cinematographer Magazine
