Archive for the ‘English Language’ Category

Learning WinDbg as a foreign language

Monday, November 10th, 2008

When we have tool commands that sound similar to English words like common root French or German vocabulary to English why not to leverage time-proven foreign language learning techniques:

WinDbg: A Reference Poster and Learning Cards

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

English for Software Engineers (with UML)

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I’ve just started writing the new series for the Russian version of my blog. It is called English for Software Engineers (in Russian) where I found new uses for UML (Unified Modeling Language) to teach important grammar patterns and concepts. Just to show you an example, here are two sequence diagrams depicting the difference between Present Perfect Tense and Past Tense:

 - Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -