Turing tarpit

I quickly became interested in addicted to Grant Skinner’s genius idea: tweetcoding. What is it? It’s a programming challenge where you try to develop “something cool” using Actionscript in 140 characters. What can you learn form 140 chars? Quite a bit actually. When the compiler strict mode is off, some very interesting shortcuts are possible. There was a different group learning dynamic that was quite interesting. Continue reading