🔗 What every programmer should know about what every programmer should know

I won’t deny it. I came up with the title for this post before coming up with the actual content. It came to my head and it was just too good to pass, because it entices you to think about that subject. What does every programmer need to know, after all?

• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
• What every computer science major should know
• Two(!) entries about text encoding:
  • What every programmer absolutely, positively needs to know about encodings and character sets to work with text
  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Game Networking
• What every programmer should know about time (the blog post is simply called “Time”, but it was featured in Hacker News with the long title)
• What every programmer should know about names (actually titled “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names” — this is about people’s names)

If you run into any other of those lists, let me know at h@ this website’s domain!