Summary of my 12 weeks at Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/).
It was, unequivocally, a fun and intellectually rewarding experience that I'd recommend to folks interested in programming -- at pretty much any stage of life or career. It's free to attend, for the moment virtual, and available in 1, 6, and 12 week formats).
- Organized a daily study group for functional programming (mainly Haskell)
- Attended weekly study groups for systems programming and type theory
- Learned about Elm and wrote some visualizations (sudoku, risk)
- Learned about networking primitives and wrote some buggy toy servers
- Contributed to a friend's Haskell game (networked and concurrent!), soon to be internet-playable
- Spent some time with property-based testing, test coverage, and TCR == (Test && Commit) || Revert
- Procrastinated on writing computer-generated music (small example sonifying the Collatz sequence)
- Started a group project to write a toy database in Haskell (with a toy SQL parser combinator and B-Trees)
- Attended 6-12 technical and non-technical a week (most of them 5 mins); gave five 5-min talks
- Attended a great talk on Turing's '36 paper on computation; presented on Dijkstra's '74 essay on scientific thought
- Wrote a few thousand lines of code -- the below table is an inaccurate though representative summary (using tokei)
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Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
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C 8 1169 935 31 203
C Header 1 229 64 122 43
Elm 12 1322 1061 43 218
Haskell 49 5231 2232 2327 672
Org 3 236 155 0 81
Python 9 743 585 23 135
Shell 6 16 13 1 2
Zig 3 56 41 0 15
Zsh 1 26 20 1 5
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Jupyter Notebooks 4 0 0 0 0
|- Markdown 4 191 0 134 57
|- Python 4 722 623 21 78
(Total) 913 623 155 135
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Total 96 9941 5729 2703 1509
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