Some things we know without being taught and it looks like the bisection is one of them. It appears to be an algorithm built into humans much like the magical pattern of three found in most folk tales or the Chomsky’s “is the man who is tall happy?” example that any child will get right even though the tightly semantically connected words appear quite distant from each other in the sentence.

The first problem you encounter when trying to teach programming to kids is lack of ideas that would make it fun. I went through that too; made up some things on the fly, accidentally came up with others, some borrowed from friends. And then decided to keep them in one place in hope that these could be useful to other people.

This is one of those shots that I planned like a battle.

A leather belt pouch I made for my daughter. Finished this one in record time because I had a client waiting.

A lot of effort had been channeled into addressing comments of the ISO National Bodies regarding the C++17 draft produced at the previous meeting. Also, some progress had been made in Modules: there appeared one more implementation of the TS and the implementer presented a report.