Douglas TeixeiraDouglas Teixeira

Douglas Teixeira is currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. His research focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of location prediction. In his free time, he likes to read, cook, and work on side projects such as his website to teach algorithms and Python programming (for free!) in Portuguese.

How to Code it

Portrait of George Pólya

Problem solving is a hard, strenuous activity for which, most of the time, there are no fixed rules. Thus, when a book comes out claiming to provide some sort of script for problem solving, it will inevitably draw a lot of attention. It was so with Polya’s “How to Solve It”, published in 1945. But … Read more