Coding Matters

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What the bot said

There’s a lot of buzz in the tech world about ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that can create human-like answers to any question you ask it. What the bot said about Eskom After all the rave posts on LinkedIn, I had to try ChatGPT for myself. It’s spectacularly better

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You, the digital butterfly

Thanks to movies, you’ve probably heard the term "the butterfly effect". The butterfly effect is the idea that small changes can have large consequences. Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorology professor in the 1960s, suggested that the flap of a butterfly’s wings might cause a tornado. It’s a big universe Last

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Lessons learned – again

A Mail and Guardian reporter wrote that this January has already been 3 months long. My week has certainly been long enough to count for next week as well. It might be the "back-to-work" syndrome, but I think it’s also "load-shedding syndrome". Is that a thing? It should be a

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Just 12 minutes

Welcome to 2023! 1 January is just the day after 31 December, but we’ve imbued it with symbolic importance. The end of the year is a time for reflection. The start of the new year is a time for new beginnings. Have you ever wondered why we do this? A

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Naming Things – Part 3

For the last few posts, we’ve looked at naming things. (If you missed them, here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2.) In this post we’re going to look at class and interface naming. We’ve seen that naming things is very important. It forces us to think hard

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Naming Things – Part 2

Lewis continues his discussion of naming conventions and naming things in Java. He explains why the Hungarian convention is not used in Java. And provides some tips about avoiding abbreviations, and using units.

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