### Advice for programming students

There are many things I wish I knew when I started my journey as a programming student. Almost 10 years have passed since, and, sadly, I can not share my experience or insights with my past self, only with my younger colleagues. This post collects some of the most useful bits of advice I wish I heard when I was 18.

### Why every programming student should learn Coq

My personal experience with Coq proof assistant over the last years made me think, that such tool, as exotic and niché as it might seem, is invaluable in a programmer’s education. Maybe we should include it in common Software Engineering and Computer Science master programs, so that students prove theorems using it.

### Taking notes in markdown: insert a part of a screenshot

I have recently switched to Spacemacs with markdown-mode to write everything markdown-related, especially making notes for whatever things I am fiddling with. While ‘markdown-mode’ is amazing, there is one feature I miss, that is: ‘pasting’ a part of a screenshot into a markdown file by saving it somewhere and generating a correct link. It is a huge waste of time and concentration to do it by hand.

### Bigger sphere inside of a smaller one

Can we put a sphere with a bigger radius inside of a smaller one so that it would be fully contained? The answer is yes, but we have to select the space we are working in carefully. I am going to provide two examples here: