This week's code snippet, Baklava in Kotlin, is brought to you by Subete and the Sample Programs repo.
fun main (args: Array<String>)
{
for (i in 0..9)
println (" ".repeat (10 - i) + "*".repeat (i * 2 + 1));
for (i in 10 downTo 0)
println (" ".repeat (10 - i) + "*".repeat (i * 2 + 1));
}Below 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: 🍎)
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- ✒️ The Cult of Efficiency Is a Plague
- ✒️ Missing the Forest for the Trees: Why You Struggle to Solve Problems
- ✒️ What It Feels Like to Be a Toddler Again: Learning a Language
- ✒️ Things I Don’t Want AI To Help Me With
- ✒️ Why I Rebel Against the Use of Generative AI
- ✒️ Buying a House Sucks
- ✒️ Smug Yet Unserious
- ✒️ 32 College Stories That Always Make Friends Laugh
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