I am cognitive science student. That is why I learnt AI, computational linguistic, machine learning, expert system, etc. 

Since I was a researcher on Augmented Reality, then I applied my computing skills. After this, I became a non-computer related lecturer, and spent my time doing programming as a hobbyist. Then later I became computer science lecturer, yet still had to do programming as a hobbyist. Now as a software developer, I know what are the differences of these roles: lecturer, researcher, hobbyist, and a true software developer. 

I liked C programming, as it is low level and the compiler is widely available. Using C language can demonstrate the understanding of pointer and memory. You can implement a linked list or a hash table by using C. So that you can understand better how the linked list and hash table work.

But as long as you want to build some end user applications, C language is never a good choice. Choosing a language for our product is important. We do not develop a web application using low level programming language. It is totally impractical.

Because of the new working environment, I cannot use my favourite customised Emacs to work. So, I have to adapt with the new text editor. Luckily, vim is available in the remote server. That means I can use SSH to run the vim. And, even Emacs is available, I feel difficult to customise and install the packages I need, because I don’t have experience installing Emacs’ packages using text-based UI. (But if it is available, I may make a try.)

Recently I involve in various projects. And they are using different technologies. I am fervent in programming because it conforms to my theological and philosophical perspective.

The languages and technology I am currently using: AngularJS and NodeJS, .NET MVC with C# Mono, and Ruby on Rails. Other related technologies: Nginx, AWS, migrations, Bootstrap CSS, etc. Besides that, my background is strong fundamental C, C++, and PHP skills; have good experience on Python; some experiences on Java, Android, Perl, and VB Script.

1. I was thinking, WT* is the unit test?
2. Why should I need unit test?
3. Why should I spend my time to prepare the test cases?
4. Why should I spend my time to become a tester instead of a developer?

For the first question, if searching online, what you get are just bunch of almost useless information. They can let you get high score in exam.

For the second question, instead of answering why, I will say, it depends. It depends on the language you are using and the framework that you are using. Let’s say you are working on C programming, there is less support of unit testing library. If you are working on Linux kernel development, unit test is difficult to implement. But, if you are developing web application, then unit testing and other testings are highly recommended. Why? Let me go to the next two answers beforehand.

I was using jEdit. And once willing to change to, so called modern text editor, Atom Text Editor. Then I did some comparisons among the text editors. At the end, now my primary text editor for coding is Emacs.

Emacs requires some time to learn and practise. But at the end, I love it too much. It is so powerful, no other text editor to compare with it. But the primary usage is for coding.

As a computer science lecturer (though I am from cognitive science background, and even labelled as NOT from computer science, 士可杀，不可辱！), I focus on the fundamental knowledge and experience. I focus on C/C++ language on my students, because only have good fundamental knowledge and skills, then they can survive with the evolving technology once they graduated. For example, Flash was popular technology, yet now it is dying. Those who know Flash only, have to learn new technology. Without fundamental skill, how to cope with the new technologies that emerge everyday? Know the root, then you can get any leaf.

I was using tab for indentation in coding, instead of spaces. Because I feel that one byte of tab is better than four bytes of space. It produces smaller file size.

However, the problems become prominent in the following circumstances.

• Viewing different languages may require different indentation width. XML and HTML may use 2 characters width, other languages may use 4 characters width. Changing the tab width from the setting frequently is inconvenient.
• Editing source code with different developers and using different text editors will produce source code with both tab and space indentation. As a result, the indentation becomes inconsistent.
• Emacs problem. If the Emacs tab width is set to 8 characters, but the source code indentation is 4, this produces both tab and space indentation at the same line, for example, 3 indents (12 characters width) produce 1 tab with 4 spaces. Oh dear, I always show the whitespace and tab marks in the editor. The ugliness disturbs me.
• Git diff view. If using Git GUI, it will highlight the tab indentation when the pervious line is a space indentation.

So, in the cases above, space indentation becomes handy. Though different developers use different text editor may produce different width of space indentation, with space indentation will produce better output than tab indentation.

Recently, I feel fervent to learn functional programming, because i) (in my opinion), it will become a trend, and ii) the interpreter can be used as an advanced calculator.

Since I am teaching Statistics, I want to do some calculation of the normal distribution probability.

Before I begin, I need to mention, in order to calculate the normal distribution probability something like P(x < X), this can be done by using a spreadsheet software with NORMDIST() and NORM.INV() for the inverse of the former function.

Previously I read an article regarding JavaScript and another one regarding HTML.

JavaScript, it is so wonderful that not only enhances the HTML interaction, (e.g. jQuery), it also makes a revolution of the system architecture design (e.g. AngularJS, ReactJS with Babel). The Babel JavaScript compiler is so amazing that it can transform the JavaScript to EcmaScript 6 with JSX feature. JSX is actually cannot be interpreted by our current web browser, but with the Babel, it makes JSX possible.