Quotes About Programming

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats.

ABC Family is where the good stuff is at. I'm so excited to be a part of this network because they've really done a great job introducing shows that are heartfelt, exciting, and everything you'd want.

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

'Cinnamon Girl' is a game changer for our network and is exactly the type of show we want to deliver.

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

I feel like the networks always end up doing similar stuff at the same time.

Although continual sound effects were common in VCS games, it is hard to produce anything that sounds like Western music on the machine. The frequencies that the TIA can generate miss most of the chromatic scale. When Garry Kitchen was working as a programmer for Activision, he went through and marked the notes that the Atari VCS could hit. He then asked a professional composer of jingles to put something together using only those notes.

PF0 is written from the low bit to the high bit of the upper nybble (half-byte), PF1 is written from the high bit to the low bit, and PF2 is written from the low bit to the high bit. This method simplified the chip's circuit design

games like Taito's Space Invaders were not designed with the peculiarities of the Atari VCS in mind. Sprites were different in many post-1977 arcade games. Most important, there were often more than two per screen! When faced with the rows of aliens in Space Invaders or the platoon of ghosts that chases Pac-Man, VCS programmers needed to discover and use methods of drawing more than two sprites, even though only two one-byte registers were available.

Eres casi tan libre de actuar como un ordenador programado. Eres casi tan único como un billete de dólar.

they had more shit on tv than you could believe now.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Becoming real simply because he'd appeared on a few thousand TV screens. Growing up with a sense that media events were real, and personal events were not. Anything that didn't happen on television didn't happen. Even as he hated conventional programming, even as he regarded it as the cud of ruminants, still it defined his sense of personal unreality; and left him unfinished.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

What matters is not the size of the church or the slickness of the programming. What matters is that those who come find a ministry and relationships worthy of spontaneous word-of-mouth recommendations.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

To perceive the Unity of the Divine is to perceive the Whole. Individuals have been given what is called a 'back door' in computer programming. A back door is a software function programmed by the original designer (Creator) that will allow him or her to perform functions denied to normal users of the software. It is a secret way to enter the program. The Supreme Reality placed a back door throughout Existence.

Aliens (intermediate programmers) are not creating computer games in the ordinary sense of the term. These games are more like works of art, improvisational theater, performance art, scientific and philosophic investigation and historical novels.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

many reasons to learn how to program: To understand our world. To study and understand processes. To be able to ask questions about the influences on their lives. To use an important new form of literacy. To have a new way to learn art, music, science, and mathematics. As a job skill. To use computers better. As a medium in which to learn problem-solving.

Every instructor needs three things: content knowledge , such as how to program; general pedagogical knowledge , such as an understanding of the psychology of learning; and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), which is the domain-specific knowledge of how to teach a particular concept to a particular audience.

It is surprising how little page space is devoted to bugs and debugging in most introductory programming textbooks.

We don't know enough yet to recommend typed or untyped languages for novices.