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Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.

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Ruby

Episode Date: October 12, 2015

This show covers Ruby: a multipurpose interpreted language for rapid development. Book of the Show Jason: Paranoia RPG Player’s Handbook Patr...

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R

Episode Date: September 10, 2015

This show covers R: a language suitable for data mining and machine learning. Book of the Show Jason: The hard thing about hard things http:/...

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Logo Scratch Lego

Episode Date: July 10, 2015

This show covers several programming languages we used as kids. Book of the Show Jason: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://a...

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Debugging

Episode Date: June 3, 2015

This show covers Debugging: how to fix and maintain code across any language. Book of the Show Jason & Patrick: Mindhacking http://www.mi...

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Fortran

Episode Date: May 7, 2015

This show covers Fortran: An old (but still very useful!) imperative language for numerical calculations. Books of the Show Jason: A Theory o...

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Node.js

Episode Date: April 6, 2015

This show covers Node.js: A server-side platform for developing network applications. Books of the Show Jason: You Can Draw in 30 Days: The F...

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Unity

Episode Date: February 2, 2015

This show covers Unity: A Toolchain and set of three scripting languages primarily for making games. Tools of the show: Jason: Meld http://me...

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Rust

Episode Date: January 7, 2015

This show covers Rust: A memory-safe systems programming language. Tools of the show: Jason: This War of Mine Patrick: Vainglory. ★ Suppor...

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SIMD

Episode Date: November 22, 2014

This show covers SIMD: A set of languages for fast array operations. Tools of the show: Jason: OpenEmu Patrick: Mint.com. Books of the show:...

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Funky Languages

Episode Date: October 15, 2014

This show covers Funky Languages: esoteric languages that are created mostly for fun. Tools of the show: Jason: Open Broadcaster Software Pat...

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Swift

Episode Date: September 8, 2014

This show covers Swift, a language developed by Apple for iOS and OS/X. Tools of the show: Jason: Nextdoor Patrick: Waze. Books of the show:...

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Haskell

Episode Date: August 1, 2014

This show covers Haskell, a statically-typed functional language. Tools of the show: Jason: Uber Patrick: Store Coupon Apps. Books of the sho...

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Databases

Episode Date: June 26, 2014

This show covers Databases. Tools of the show: Jason: nvAlt / nvPy Patrick: Arduino. Books of the show: Jason: Negotiating For Dummies http:/...

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Design Patterns

Episode Date: May 7, 2014

This show covers Design Patterns. Tools of the show: Jason: VirtualBox Patrick: Bittorrent Sync. Books of the show: Jason: HTML5 Game Develop...

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OpenSCAD

Episode Date: March 18, 2014

This show covers OpenSCAD and 3d modeling. Tools of the show: Jason: uSelect iDownload Patrick: Skulls of the Shogun. Books of the show: Jaso...

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Unix Commands

Episode Date: January 27, 2014

This show covers Unix Commands and How to Ace an Interview. Tools of the show: Jason: Duolingo Patrick: 123D Design. Books of the show: Jason...

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FPGAs

Episode Date: November 20, 2013

This show covers Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) programming. Tools of the show: Jason: Kaggle http://www.kaggle.com/ Patrick: KiCad htt...

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CUDA and OpenCL

Episode Date: September 4, 2013

This show covers CUDA and OpenCL, languages targeting the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Tools of the show: NES/SNES Together https://play.g...