Quotes About Coding

Herbert Schildt

I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

I originally studied graphic design and video production. I had wanted to be a programmer - I loved development and coding - but it turned out that I really enjoyed doing the frontend more than backend development.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

Code is FLUFFY AND FIERCE.

The numerals 666 are most often identified with the Beast of Revelation, but they are also symbolic of the fact that we live in a carbon-based universe.  An atom of carbon features six protons, six neutrons and six electrons.  In other words, this universe we live in is coded in 666 by the very nature of what it is.

It appears evident that, for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality.

This book will help you become a better programmer.

But that ignores the fact that tests are also a way of communicating with other developers, so I now do write tests on code shared with others or that relies on the peculiarities of external dependencies.

Once parents see that Roblox isn't simply a video game, but a platform for creativity, building, coding, collaboration, and more, they become some of our biggest advocates.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.

For me, growing up coding and computers and video games wasn't something that was cool, but it was something that I was always passionate about. I never let the fact that that wasn't something that was cool take me away from it.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.