English as a second language teacher here. Spend most of my time teaching lawyers and board members English. Cargo cult programmer (since 1980) and about to lau

English as a second language teacher here. Spend most of my time teaching lawyers and board members English. Cargo cult programmer (since 1980) and about to launch a website where I kill my inner cargo cultist and embrace the light of Knuth. My project for the next year is to see how my cargo cult side fares against my newly found inner Knuth as I tackle writing a web based system to schedule teachers at our school (150+) for lessons all around Prague at different companies. It's a race to see if copy/paste from open source to make an MVP wins against understanding the domain problem from a mathematical perspective and applying the correct algorithms hence making a robust, flexible system. From my initial research I think MVP will get done first, but will completely collapse under real world constraints, whereas Knuth will take 10 months to materialize anything, but that thing will be awesome. But excuse me, I have to get back to reading pre-algebra for dummies (I spent a lot of my childhood travelling and never ever learnt any math, so Knuth is killing me)