50 LANGUAGES IN (ALMOST) 50 DAYS
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A programmer recounts a personal hobby project: attempting to learn and use 50 programming languages in about 50 days. The talk explains how the challenge grew out of participation in programming contests and argues that seemingly useless, playful coding experiments can still yield valuable lessons and insights.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:52What is competitive programming
- 5:25Online judges and resources
- 10:01Advent of Code calendars
- 16:18Polyglot challenge begins
- 21:55First year recap
- 23:00Second year restart
- 26:11Language selection struggles
- 29:18Classifying the 50 languages
- 37:01Code samples and anecdotes
- 41:37Language discovery sources
- 47:53Closing remarks
- 48:57Q&A