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Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.

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189: Agentic Loops
Aug 2026 · 1 book
Cover of Waves in an Impossible Sea
Waves in an Impossible Sea
Matt Strassler
“Waves in an impossible sea by Matt Strassler”
188: World Models
Jul 2026 · 2 books
Cover of The Strength of the Few
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
“called I think it's the Hierarchy series is the name of it, is The Strength of the Few”
Cover of Descender
Descender
Jeff Lemire
“it's called Descender. And the gist of it is Um Robots”
187: Agentic Coding
May 2026 · 2 books
Cover of Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
“late, better late than never, they say, Project Hail Mary”
Cover of The Martian
The Martian
Andy Weir
“if you've, you know, kind of gone through Andy Weir's other book, oh, why is the name escaping me now? The one The Martian, right”
186: Becoming a Manager
Feb 2026
185: Workflow Orchestrators
Nov 2025
184: Asynchronous Programming
Sep 2025
183: Landing a Software Job in 2025
Jul 2025
182: AI Assisted Coding
Jun 2025
181: Memory Management
May 2025
180: Reinforcement Learning
Mar 2025
179: Project Planning
Feb 2025
178: Working from Home
Dec 2024
177: Vector Databases
Nov 2024
176: MLOps at SwampUp
Sep 2024
175: Resume Writing
Aug 2024
173: Mocking and Unit Tests
Apr 2024
172: Transformers and Large Language Models
Mar 2024
171: Compilers and Interpreters
Feb 2024
170: 2023 Holiday Special Live
Dec 2023
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