I wrote my first line of code on a game console without persistent storage. Coding is everything that makes computer a computer.
Now, some kids in college have an impression that coding is less relevant for a CS career.
Now, some kids in college have an impression that coding is less relevant for a CS career.
Good times. The best was when there was a typo or a bug or it just didn’t work. Esp. the machine code that was just pages of hex.
Learning nothing but theory can come back to bite you some times.
After a chuckle, I showed them how to open the case and retrieve the CD.
In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.
(Turing award lecture, 1972)
As our second best DBA did when I worked at BT - he had worked at NPL and Dijkstra was his boss