This week's code snippet, Baklava in Scilab, is brought to you by Subete and the Sample Programs repo.
function [result] = strRepeat(n, s)
result = ''
for i = 1:n
result = result + s
end
endfunction
for i = -10:10
numSpaces = abs(i)
mprintf('%s%s\n', strRepeat(numSpaces, ' '), strRepeat(21 - 2 * numSpaces, '*'))
endBelow you'll find an up-to-date list of articles by me on The Renegade Coder. For ease of browsing, emojis let you know the article category (i.e., blog: ✒️, code: 💻, meta: 💭, teach: 🍎)
- ✒️ Recommended Reading: “The Law of Leaky Abstractions” by Joel Spolsky
- ✒️ LLMs Are Not Like Compilers
- 🍎 How Do We Assess Understanding in the Age of Slop?
- ✒️ I Don’t Really Trust Surveys
- ✒️ AI Literacy, Shame, and Nuance
- 🍎 Recommended Reading: “To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain” by Scott K. Johnson
- 🍎 Writing Code on Paper Is Good Actually
- ✒️ People Don’t Like to Be Deceived (by AI)
- 🍎 Generative AI in Education is Pay-to-Lose
- ✒️ My First “I Have a Toddler” Moment
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