Lead geek of Singapore: Coders go wild over PM Lee's skills
If the programming code below looks like Greek to you, it's okay. It looks like Greek to most regular people as well. Except for coders... and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, that is.
The prime minister delighted his compatriate coders this week when he shared a Sudoku program he created and asked for feedback. On Facebook and Twitter, PM Lee shared the source code, exe file, and sample printout, and fellow Singaporean developers checked and help him find and fix bugs.
Some savvy coders offered advice on a potential bug:
Lee Hsien Loong welcomed the feedback:
.@hackerfantastic Thanks! Will add input validation in next version. – LHL
— Lee Hsien Loong (@leehsienloong) May 6, 2015
Fans also suggested the PM upload it to GitHub to share the open source code, but Lee declined.
The fact that the PM can code is news to a lot of people, and it spawned a number of comments and a Quora post. Another fact not widely known is that Lee Hsien Loong was the Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1973, meaning he ranked first in mathematics. It's a highly respected position, and to some considered the highest intellectual achievement in Britain.
