Quotes About Coding

The goal is to minimize the amount of a program you have to think about at any one time. You might think of this as mental juggling—the more mental balls the program requires you to keep in the air at once, the more likely you'll drop one of the balls, leading to a design or coding error.

few people can understand more than three levels of nested ifs

The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -sitting quietly in a chair with a pencil, paper and laptop- is going to have to write the codes... One can mass-produce hardware and increase it's power by piling on more and more chips, but you cannot mass-produce the brain.

Los hologramas son láminas de plástico bidimensionales que han sido especialmente codificadas con la imagen de un objeto tridimensional. Al iluminar una con un rayo láser, esta imagen aparece de pronto. En otras palabras, toda la información necesaria para crear una imagen tridimensional ha sido codificada en una lámina plana, bidimensional, con el uso de láseres

Code writers and engineers often maintain the fiction that their own psychology has little bearing on their work. Reason rules.

NT is alarmingly complex. Consisting of six million lines of code, the program is among humanity's most intricate handiworks. "No one mind can comprehend it all," Cutler says. A

Most code writers were like gifted athletes; they learned by doing and could not explain their actions. They just did it. This method, while fine for getting started, often hampered efforts at making code faster, which required unblinking self-analysis. "The secret to optimizing speed" he said, "is to ask yourself, 'What does this code actually need to do? What's the least work I can do to solve this problem?' " All

If a code writer considered himself a master craftsman, a tester saw himself as a marauder, probing for weak points in code, then cruelly exploiting them. The dominant technique was uncomplicated: Stress a program until it broke.

The practice of writing code in C++ continually upset Cutler because it created so much confusion and inefficiency.

Even seasoned code writers could not dismiss the possibility of being trapped in something akin to an infinite loop, wherein fixes spawned their own bugs. It had happened to others. The history of software was littered with projects, large and small, that had been abandoned in disgust, destroying careers.

Gates had a notion that only solid code writers should manage and all managers of code writers should keep writing code.

Programming "was just the most bizarre situation, because you're used to doing something and thinking you've done it right," he later said. "But it isn't right. You just don't notice it isn't right. On a computer there is no consolation in discovering you're almost right. Almost means you're still just wrong." Even

A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unseen worlds.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Nevertheless, C retains the basic philosophy that programmers know what they are doing; it only requires that they state their intentions explicitly.

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube.

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.