Quotes About Coding

Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

The first thing I tell women is this: They think that coding or being in any computer field is very solitary, very solemn, that you're just set off in a cubicle somewhere and it's not social and it's not creative. I would tell them that it's the furthest from the truth.

FACS, which stands for Facial Action Coding System.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.

But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti.

The best way to start fixing a bug is to make it reproducible. After all, if you can't reproduce it, how will you know if it is ever fixed?

While software development is immune from almost all physical laws, entropy hits us hard.

you may not even need to code in order to prototype architecture—you can prototype on a whiteboard, with Post-it notes or index cards.

If you are doing very detailed implementation and coding, read a book on design and architecture. If you are doing high-level design, read a book on coding techniques.

We write code, which communicates our intentions to a machine and documents our thinking for future generations of developers.

Software defects manifest themselves in a variety of ways, from misunderstood requirements to coding errors.

std::bind can express the same thing, but the construct is an example of job security through code obscurity:

I have the ability to get code done, but I'm impatient, and it's scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with 'Minecraft,' as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I'd like to actually become a good programmer.

I believe coding is fundamental to literacy in the future.

Genes themselves are made of bits.

Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.