With the England vs. Germany game around the corner this coming Wednesday, I caught a sniff this weekend of a new book called “Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.” I ...

For many years–decades actually–I was a big fan of beautiful code. I read almost everything by Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and P. J. Plauger. This passion for elegant code was an attempt to ...

What is the best way to teach young students the basics of coding? Not with a screen, says Kim Smith, SM ’17, but with wooden toys. That’s why she and Yonatan Cohen launched Learning Beautiful to ...

A couple of years ago I did a Q&A with Q&A with Christopher Seiwald who is chief technology officer for Perforce Software. Seiwald made a comment that he thought code should be more than just ...