Published in CodeX·PinnedWhy I chose coding as my professionI can’t say it was a conscious or well-informed decision when I first started coding back in 2000. I just fell in love with coding as soon as I wrote my first line of C code. That said love is not enough to pick something as a profession and build…Programming3 min read
Jan 19100 Push-ups Challenge from an Engineer’s PerpectiveBack in February 2020, I did 100 push-ups every day for 30 days. Being a software engineer myself, I’d like to demonstrate this challenge as an experiment. I didn’t get to write about my experience until now. So here we are. I will present the data first, then interpret the…Motivation3 min read
Jan 15Are supplements necessary for weight loss and better workouts?There is a huge industry on supplements. If there is good money in an industry, unfortunately, there are plenty of lies as well. Therefore, we have no choice but to be careful and do our own research. While a famous doctor says that something is very good and harmless, another…Fitness3 min read
Jan 12Save $1 billion with the Option typeTony Hoare, who introduced null references in 1965, described them as “The Billion Dollar Mistake” in this speech in 2009. No matter how much experience you have, I believe that you have had problems caused by null pointers in any programming language such as NullPointerException in Java, NoMethodError in Ruby…Rust4 min read
Jan 6The effect of alcohol on weight lossThis article is for those who drink alcohol next to a meal or when they go out with friends, namely social drinkers. Is it possible to burn fat and build muscle while still drinking alcohol? …Alcohol3 min read
Jan 5Why Rust excites meI started coding in 2000 and C was my first programming language. It’s 2022 and a programming language excites me again. The last time I had this feeling was in 2012 with Scala. Although I am a part of the generation that grew up with the Commodore 64, I had…Rust3 min read
Jan 4Comparing Traits in Rust to Type Classes in ScalaI have been reading The Rust Programming Language and Scala with Cats simultaneously for the last couple of weeks to refresh my memory in both topics. While reading about Traits in “the Rust book” I noticed how similar Rust’s Traits and Scala’s Type Classes are. …Scala3 min read
Jul 11, 2020Option tipini iterator gibi kullanmakDaha önce Option tipinden ve özellikle null referans hatasına karşı bizi nasıl koruduğundan bahsetmiştim. Bugün de Option tipini 0 veya 1 elemanlı bir liste gibi düşünüp diğer koleksiyon tipleriyle nasıl birleştirebileceğimize değinmek istiyorum. Konumuza geçmeden önce bu paragrafta başka bir konudan bahsetmek istiyorum. Takip ettiğiniz üzere sekiz gündür Rust hakkında…Rust2 min read
Jul 10, 2020Rust ile ifade özgürlüğüScala’da her şey bir expression(ifade). Bunun faydalarını gördükten sonra yalnızca statement’lar ile çalışan diller beni çok zorlamaya başladı. Örneğin Java yazarken bu durumdan oldukça rahatsızım. Expression bir değer üretir ve dönerken, statement aslında bir tür durum veya emir belirtir. Dolayısıyla statement’lar imperative dillerin, expression’lar da fonksiyonel dillerin temel bileşenleridir. …Rust2 min read
Jul 9, 2020? operatörü ile hataları dönmekHata bu işin fıtratında var🙂 Rust uygulamada oluşabilecek ve bir şekilde tepki verilebilecek hataları ifade etmek için Result tipini kullanıyor. Bu tip Scala geliştiricilerin aşina olduğu Either ve biraz da Try tiplerine çok benziyor. Hataları bir tip ile ifade etmek dün bahsettiğim Option tipi ile null referansları ifade etmekle hemen…Rust2 min read
