Best xkcd Programming Comics

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05 Dec 2008 at 17:20

Summary

xkcd is a “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” and one of my favorites on the Web.  The strip regularly features very funny comics about computers and programming.
xkcd is written by Randall Munroe, a CNU graduate with a degree in physics.  Before starting xkcd, Munroe

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xkcd is a “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” and one of my favorites on the Web.  The strip regularly features very funny comics about computers and programming.

xkcd is written by Randall Munroe, a CNU graduate with a degree in physics.  Before starting xkcd, Munroe worked on robots at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia.

Be sure to heed the warning on the site: “This comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).”

Following is a collection of some of xkcd’s best comics on computer programming:

GOTO

 

Code Talkers

  

Pong

 

LISP

 

LISP Cycles

 

IPoD

 

Orphaned Projects

 

Forgetting

 

Python

 

Ballmer Peak

 

Security Holes

 

The Ring

 

Emoticon

Read more about emoticons 

 

Bug

 

Traveling Salesman Problem

 

Exercise

 

Command Line Fu

 

E to the Pi Minus Pi

 

Donald Knuth

 

Open Source

 

Black Hat Support

 

Far Away

“Meh” is now an official word!

 

Moving

 

Pix Plz

 

Cautionary

 

 

Compiler Complaint 

 

Compiling

 

Electric Skateboard

1337: Part 5

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