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  • čas přidán 16. 11. 2014
  • CHM Exhibition "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing"
    Software is more than obscure computer code. It’s an art form: a meticulously-crafted literature that enables complex conversations between humans and machines. From FORTRAN to sophisticated programs in use today, discover the technology, creativity, hard work, and technique behind these elegant languages. Software pioneers share their stories.
    Catalog Number: 102695613
    Lot Number: X6142.2011
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Komentáře • 656

  • @Colstonewall
    @Colstonewall Před 9 lety +292

    Although I'm just an amateur, I can definitely understand how Knuth and others feel when they write code. It's like building something, planning the Empire State Building, then building it yourself. The feeling you get when it's finished is almost indescribable. I suppose the same as when a architect sees his building after finished, or when a musical group writes a song and hears it on the radio. A great feeling.

    • @swallowedinthesea11
      @swallowedinthesea11 Před 3 lety +7

      Five years later... are you advanced now?

    • @Brlitzkreig
      @Brlitzkreig Před 2 lety +3

      How good are you now?

    • @mayanksingh3171
      @mayanksingh3171 Před 2 lety +2

      Dying to know where u are know?
      Since, I'm an amateur now and probably at a place you were 7 years ago

    • @sheerazp7126
      @sheerazp7126 Před rokem +2

      Bro you alive if so tell us how much you have learnt in these past 7 years

    • @HabunoGD1821
      @HabunoGD1821 Před rokem +1

      ??

  • @sergiofernandez1863
    @sergiofernandez1863 Před 7 lety +599

    getting a high from coding... I know that feeling.

  • @UKGeezer
    @UKGeezer Před 4 lety +47

    I remember writing my own assembler, in Basic, for the Commodore 64 when I was 14 back in the mid 80s. Writing machine code in pure decimal was quite painful, so I wrote an assembler to make it easier. Being able to code using mnemonics was a huge leap for me.
    I remember my very first machine code program on the C64 was moving a sprite across the screen. When I ran the program it just looked like a blur, and I thought it was a bug until I realised it was just moving really fast. I had to put a load of NOP instructions in to slow it down. Happy memories, and all these years later I'm still doing it (in C++) and still loving it. Plus it's provided me with a good career. I love software.

    • @UKGeezer
      @UKGeezer Před 4 lety +1

      @referral madness NOP means no operation. The instruction delays the process for 1 clock cycle.

    • @adennis200
      @adennis200 Před rokem +3

      Jesus, st that age i didnt know what code even was

  • @paullangton-rogers2390
    @paullangton-rogers2390 Před rokem +2

    The guy at the start who spoke so passionately about programming as eash new line of code giving him a high and making him feel good.. only a programmer I think can truly understand what he's conveying.
    I'm a programmer myself, self-taught. My first program was in BASIC before modern deskop computers became more affordable and commonplace. I borrowed a friends BBC Micro which he used exclusively for playing games on, like most people. Nobody I knew thought to try programming one. So my friend was puzzled when he saw that black screen and cursor flashing. He asked if I'd broken the computer. I reassured him it was not broken, just awaiting instructions.
    I remember writing my first program in BASIC which was a simple print hello loop pressing enter and seeing it work (after a few trial and errors) and my second program added two numbers together. Seeing the second program run and do math was astonishing. I experienced that feeling of awe and the high programmer described. I began thinking, how can I expand this program to do different type of math, beyond just addition, and soon it did.
    Programming is both a science and a creative act. It's almost like modern form of alchemy in many ways, providing the ability to manipulate matter and energy using a machine and languge code. Complex ideas from your mind can become realised in the physical world through programming. It's kind of magical and empowering. The only limit is your imagination.
    I remember writing my first real program. Several thousand lines of code written in Perl. The program was a comprehensive Web-based eBay seller manager which interfaced directly to eBay using their API. Back then, eBay was still very crude. It lacked so many simple time saving features and obvious ways to improve and optimise businesses selling on eBay. So I studied the API closely and used it to help sellers get the most out of eBay and save a great deal of time. I overcame limitations in the API with a little creative thinking and programming, to go further to surpass the limitations.
    It wasn't long before my program reached around 37,000 lines of code. With not a single subroutine and no error handling! It soon became difficult to improve further and to debug errors. So I reached out to the programmer community and found someone who became a programming mentor and a close friend for many years. He told me my program was the ugliest program he'd ever seen and absolutely hideous! However he was impressed I'd managed to write such a large first program and overcome API limitations with programming but that in so, I had massively over-complicated the program by not using existing objects, due to my lack of programming knowledge and experience. He taught me the disciplines of programming. The need for subroutines, error handling, neat correct syntax, clear commenting explaining what the subroutines did, and so on. Then he taught me how to use and create objects and SQL quering which took my programming to the next level. We later collaborated together on developing an algorithm for trading financial markets.
    Programming is extremely satisifying. Seeing something go from an idea in your mind, to a flow chart, then to a running computer program that does something truly unique And it's even more rewarding when your code is used by others, who derive benefits and you receive praise or acknowledgement for making someones life a bit easier or better.
    Despite programmers having the stereotype image of being loner geeks who don't socialise, the programming community is very socially connected. Ideas, knowledge and skills flow freely between programmers in a way not seen anywhere else. Many programmers are willing to share their time, knowledge and often source code freely, to help others. Solving problems and learning new things together is what makes programming so special. It's what enables software and hardware technology to continually improve and evolve.
    It's a priviledge being part of a diverse worldwide community of programmers which transcends all cultures and countries. Many programmers have gone on to achieve remarkable things or businesses that have impacted or changed the world forever. And they usually relied upon other programmers. Take the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. A programmer who in the midst of the 2008 banking crisis had a vision for a de-centralised digital currency. He started the programming himself and then formed a small team. Gradually it evolved into a worldwide community that realised the concept behind his ingenious blockchain ledger and nodes approach. And now its created many spin-offs and an entire digital currency ecosystem, all from one man and one idea.

    • @infimond8490
      @infimond8490 Před 11 měsíci

      good read . thanks

    • @con_potencial
      @con_potencial Před 5 měsíci

      Your ebay and mentor story is almost exactly like mine!

  • @CommandoMaster
    @CommandoMaster Před 6 lety +77

    Can't wait for what the future holds in technology and software.

  • @kristypolymath1359
    @kristypolymath1359 Před 4 lety +19

    Beautiful video. Brought me to tears at the end. I've never been a professional programmer, and never will be, but I find coding syntax to be beautiful. I find the abstraction of lower level instructions hidden by a print( "hello world") to be beautiful.

  • @mikeyangyang8816
    @mikeyangyang8816 Před rokem +5

    Coding is like an extension of your thought, it runs when you want to make something happen again and it runs super fast. Even when you are not there to make sure it runs, if it is crafted well, it can run over and over again, like a part of your mind but efficient and unrelenting. The feeling that I get from successfully implementing a feature is euphoric and addictive. I absolutely love writing good code, especially when it can run even when you are asleep.

  • @icebeardoesnttalkmuch8919
    @icebeardoesnttalkmuch8919 Před 5 lety +290

    Programming is literally an art. Not everyone has the eye or mind for it.

    • @qwertykeyboard5901
      @qwertykeyboard5901 Před 5 lety +10

      Shahzy B it allows you to see how people think

    • @AnotherGlenn
      @AnotherGlenn Před 5 lety +7

      Strangely, it also predisposes you to being able to decipher legalese. Lawyers have a lot to hide.

    • @chrismofer
      @chrismofer Před 4 lety +31

      but remember with BASIC and a little patience, anybody can learn to code. In about 5 minutes you can have someone modifying a hello world sketch and adding their own extra print statements, and then in another 5 minutes you can have them writing complex calculators (i.e. add a bunch of numbers from the user and divide by n, to get the average). and boom you've made a programmer out of the schoolteacher or a laborer or what have you.
      now, after that point, the ones with the aptitude and the code high will be the ones chasing file tree sorters.

    • @camn-bv3vq
      @camn-bv3vq Před 4 lety +5

      Is not an art really. Is an art programming with less code possible, So everyone can read it.
      No much code make it better, but not less code meke it neither.
      Readable, scalable and workable is the perfect code

    • @IonutzGamesMc
      @IonutzGamesMc Před 4 lety +5

      @@chrismofer I wouldn't classify someone making an average or editing the message of a print as a programmer...the same way i wouldn't call a guy hitting a random guitar chord once a musician.

  • @justicewillprevail1106
    @justicewillprevail1106 Před 2 lety +12

    I find programming similar to solving a puzzle. Stressful at time but so happy when I accomplished it. There’s def a difference between beautiful codes and ugly ones. It’s like writing. Some can write beautifully and some writes with nothing but grammatical errors.

  • @SusanJMT
    @SusanJMT Před 9 lety +33

    A nice walk down memory lane for those of us educated in the late 60's/early 70's and active in the field throughout our careers. Also an easy way to pick up some history of the field.

    • @Fakezyz
      @Fakezyz Před 4 lety +1

      Ok boomer

    • @null301_
      @null301_ Před 2 lety

      @@Fakezyz Congratulations, you called someone a boomer, here are your 2 Internet Points
      Your balance is now 24

    • @EugeneHaroldKrab
      @EugeneHaroldKrab Před rokem

      @@Fakezyz what the heck man? you're talking to someone who helped build the modern world we live in. Being a disrespectful little poosy online just cause your parents hate you isn't going to fix your situation. And plus, everyone here knows you don't talk like this in real life, so why be a funny guy online? Cause you're safe? lol like father like son.

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota Před rokem +1

      @@Fakezyz Why are you mean? Are you unsure of yourself? It makes you feel better to make others seem smaller?

  • @louiecullen2318
    @louiecullen2318 Před 6 lety +5

    Don Kluth's enthusiasm brings a smile to my face, I wish I liked anything as much as he likes programming. His love for the field really shows.

  • @brettany_renee_blatchley
    @brettany_renee_blatchley Před 7 měsíci +1

    Writing software is like writing literature or poerty for me; and I write software for people to read as well as computers to execute. It's art to me. 💙💚💜 It is a set of magical incantations that come to life!

  • @adelincavasi8747
    @adelincavasi8747 Před 5 lety +14

    What a great production quality. I wish this was just the introduction to a 2 hour video

  • @Kevin-yh8ol
    @Kevin-yh8ol Před 6 lety +609

    *writes a 7 line code
    *gets 47 errors
    Don't get high before writing the code

    • @maninarush2112
      @maninarush2112 Před 5 lety +20

      best assignment mark i got in CS 1 was an assignment that i completed cooked out of my fuckin mind

    • @AnotherGlenn
      @AnotherGlenn Před 5 lety +15

      Getting high can be very inspirational and motivating. CAN BE.

    • @SMunro
      @SMunro Před 4 lety +6

      Builds a simple generator to produce every possible combination of 'ones' and 'zeroes'. I just wrote every possible program.

    • @robertmotion
      @robertmotion Před 4 lety

      Faaactz🤦🏾‍♂️😂
      /Bklyn👑

    • @andrewdaniels5043
      @andrewdaniels5043 Před 4 lety

      Judging by how you said that I can tell that you've never written a program

  • @lotfullahandishmand4973
    @lotfullahandishmand4973 Před rokem +1

    combining all these information in one video is also an Art!

  • @luiss.9298
    @luiss.9298 Před 8 lety +6

    For people young like me it is great to learn from the pioneers in the field. A lot of programmers my age don't really have a concept of how the higher languages developed over the course of a lifetime. When people here of fortran or assembly they think it is the most archaic thing they have ever herd.

  • @ioratv
    @ioratv Před 5 lety +81

    Project: *is small*
    Node developers: *REQUIRES 500 PACKAGES FROM NPM*

    • @crashmatrix
      @crashmatrix Před 4 lety +4

      Ah yes, the 500 or so packages that depend on 'left-pad'. Good times.

    • @okie9025
      @okie9025 Před 4 lety +2

      Node devs are not only a disgrace to the JS community, but to the entire programming community alltogether

    • @xavierang9459
      @xavierang9459 Před 4 lety +1

      Bunny why?

    • @okie9025
      @okie9025 Před 4 lety +7

      @@xavierang9459 I'm a JS developer, and honestly having to deal with 300MB node_modules folders is a mess, especially when what you're trying to make is relatively simple

    • @rydercarter7035
      @rydercarter7035 Před 3 lety +1

      @@okie9025 why not use php instead

  • @macarc985
    @macarc985 Před 5 lety +103

    4:51 should end in a ; not a :

    • @deadaccount3994
      @deadaccount3994 Před 5 lety +10

      @steve gale no the bottom line, all SQL statements are terminated with a semicolon but they just used a colon.

    • @franciscovarela7127
      @franciscovarela7127 Před 4 lety +1

      well spotted

    • @Aniisananime
      @Aniisananime Před 4 lety +3

      @@deadaccount3994 yes you are indeed correct. I have no words that they didn't spot the colon while editing. But there are also few criteria where colons are used (watched in a GeoHot vid). However, here a semicolon is the right choice

    • @garveziukas
      @garveziukas Před 4 lety +1

      YES that got me mildly infuriated as well

  • @exstee
    @exstee Před 7 lety +27

    As someone who wants to major in computer science, this video was really informative. Thank you.

    • @futbolita89742
      @futbolita89742 Před 7 lety +1

      xStillo yea for newbees it is

    • @exstee
      @exstee Před 7 lety +4

      Well, you have to start somewhere... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @andrescramosm
    @andrescramosm Před 6 lety +17

    Simply beautiful! it's amazing the capacity of the human's brain to create things with a such level of complexity

  • @VinRZ
    @VinRZ Před 6 lety +4

    I love how they included assembly language, that's cool

  • @SaidakbarP
    @SaidakbarP Před 5 lety +1

    This video sparks love for programming in me again! Just inspiring! Donald Knuth, live long and prosper!

  • @Omar-vz9el
    @Omar-vz9el Před 4 lety

    This was a nugget of gold. Thank you.

  • @dark_evil77
    @dark_evil77 Před 4 lety +2

    I’m a competetive programmer and I find this video true and deserving !

  • @kormsonnili9917
    @kormsonnili9917 Před měsícem

    This video was just awesome. It just puts everything into perspective. And makes the somewhat unbelievable and magicly unreal aspect of how computers work to showing us that it works that way because thats how we want it to.

  • @christsang9290
    @christsang9290 Před 3 lety +1

    Found it amusing as a professional software engineer. Thanks internet.

  • @PADRONJORGEL
    @PADRONJORGEL Před 9 lety +1

    Yes has always been an art, a technique perfected through years of practice with dedication and love on what you do

  • @StudentLearning737
    @StudentLearning737 Před 5 lety +2

    Finally a general video of coding history. How come no one talks about the history of computers.

  • @Farreach
    @Farreach Před 5 lety +1

    I am about to start mt Data Structure class and my Introduction to Programming Languages for my CS degree .. i am excited there isn't anything better then understanding how a computer works in my opinion

  • @Voidermusic
    @Voidermusic Před 4 lety

    What a greatly made movie! I enjoyed it a lot, especially the vintage feel and it somehow was really cozy.

  • @d.romero3014
    @d.romero3014 Před 6 lety +3

    I always say to my students and apprentices, programming is 50% technical and 50% art. You can't master programming computers without being technical AND artistical.

  • @Ayoub-adventures
    @Ayoub-adventures Před 4 lety

    Thank's for recognizing our artists talents. Many people don't

  • @saskiavanhoutert3190
    @saskiavanhoutert3190 Před 4 lety

    Computerizing, as an executer so to say, is giving me pleasure and beside my age i still like working with them, thanks and kind regards.

  • @abushaad7511
    @abushaad7511 Před 3 lety

    I am so delighted and so happy to see young Don.

  • @kd1s
    @kd1s Před 6 lety

    My very first computer was a TRS-80 Model I 16K Level II. I used to poke assembly into the memory that was before I heard of MASM. That made it lots easier.

  • @Jigmet8
    @Jigmet8 Před 4 lety +13

    getting error is a part of programming so don't give up,
    just fall in love with it..

  • @Jarocho2003
    @Jarocho2003 Před 7 lety +1

    Awesome! Educational! Inspiring! Thanks!

  • @rexiiforsure9558
    @rexiiforsure9558 Před 6 lety +2

    Learning and applying the craft is very exciting, almost limitless possibilities. The responsibility relies on understanding and correctly applying the theory, as opposed to making things that seem to work. In the latter an example was someone putting delays in a program. He said the if you use 5 delays this funky bug would go away, so he put in 10 delays in the final code just to ‘make sure, well it worked ....until months later when the system was under heavy use ... the funky bug returned.... the root cause of the funky bug was 1 wrong bit in a configuration register! I don’t know if 100 delay Benjamin’s would be enough! But flipping the bit fixed

  • @rdvqc
    @rdvqc Před 4 lety +2

    Funny timing. This is the first time I have seen Donald Knuth though I have know the name for more that 45 years. Even more interesting, we were clearing out a bunch of books yesterday and two of the books I saved were 2 volumes from Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming." - specifically the volumes on Fundamental Algorithms and Sorting and Searching. They still have value.

  • @archiveofeternity91
    @archiveofeternity91 Před rokem

    Very well produced video! Thanks for this. Highly informative

  • @itechnottingham5706
    @itechnottingham5706 Před 7 lety +1

    Educational and awesome..thanks for sharing...

  • @kwamouflage2515
    @kwamouflage2515 Před 7 lety +159

    I almost spit out my coffee when I heard "Fortran," for a minute I thought he said "4chan."

    • @larva5606
      @larva5606 Před 6 lety +6

      Top kek

    • @NuevoVR
      @NuevoVR Před 6 lety

      Adrian V. Fuck off that's not even a kek

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 Před 4 lety +1

      @Reflexez I'm gonna guess that it's generational, If someone says "4chan" in a conversation, I will hear "Fortran", LOL

  • @sanderdejong66
    @sanderdejong66 Před 2 lety

    All these legends in this video! 😯

  • @AnotherGlenn
    @AnotherGlenn Před 5 lety +4

    I used to love the VIC20 and C64 when I was a kid. Now, I program PLCs for factory automation. I went to a decent college for electronics. Lot's of lab work. Good decisions. Also, computers aren't assholes to the degree that humans are. In the future, I hope to avoid dealing with humans altogether.

  • @MajSolo
    @MajSolo Před 7 lety +9

    A job well done in any business gives a good feeling. Especially if it is ground breaking and opens up a lot of possibilities.

  • @ChrisPinCornwall
    @ChrisPinCornwall Před rokem +1

    Programming in assembler tedious? I think not! I still love it, 60 years on.

  • @franciscovarela7127
    @franciscovarela7127 Před 4 lety

    Reading code that makes me smile is a rare occurrence.

  • @IStMl
    @IStMl Před 4 lety +7

    7:07 Bogo Sort: *"ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF"*

  • @FromTheHeart2
    @FromTheHeart2 Před 2 lety

    Thank you so very much for this and for your channel!!!!

  • @SAlmanKhanDev
    @SAlmanKhanDev Před 5 lety

    I don't know when did I choose programming, now I know, I did a great job

  • @findingResources
    @findingResources Před 3 lety

    An art indeed. Very few people are obsessed with experiment and create a meaningful recipe with the existing ingredients..

  • @aster1sk294
    @aster1sk294 Před 6 lety +5

    Immediately after watching this video, i opened up Unity for the first time in a week.

    • @chappie3642
      @chappie3642 Před 6 lety +1

      Ivy1Musical unity? Trust me move to java or c++

    • @beri4138
      @beri4138 Před 3 lety

      @@chappie3642 Unity is great for making games, which is probably what he's doing with it.

  • @SharifSourour
    @SharifSourour Před 5 lety +38

    Though I know it's true from a logical sense, I don't like calling computers dumb but really a miraculous development.

    • @MrNucleosome
      @MrNucleosome Před 5 lety +21

      I prefer to call computers just machines or tools. I wouldn't say that my hammer is dumb or my screwdriver is intelligent. The intelligence comes from how you use that tool.

    • @SharifSourour
      @SharifSourour Před 5 lety +2

      @@MrNucleosome Agreed.

    • @SamirPatnaik
      @SamirPatnaik Před 5 lety +1

      touché

    • @crashmatrix
      @crashmatrix Před 4 lety +2

      I suppose this sentiment is mostly a refutation of what people out of the loop see a computer do. Without sufficient context about what's really happening anyone would claim the device to be 'magic' or intelligent to some degree.

    • @MrAvocadoMan
      @MrAvocadoMan Před 4 lety

      @@crashmatrix well said

  • @poitromatrolo5463
    @poitromatrolo5463 Před 8 lety +1

    Always is intense thinking but rewarding after solving the problem in simple way.

    • @beri4138
      @beri4138 Před 3 lety

      The solution is never simple though it always compiles to like 14,000 lines of machine code

  • @gammafreak
    @gammafreak Před 5 lety

    Wow, i was trying to edit fortran today. So cool, archaic, yet powerful.

  • @nobodysfool2232
    @nobodysfool2232 Před 5 lety

    Love this analogy!

  • @user-sz9wm4rm5c
    @user-sz9wm4rm5c Před 8 lety +4

    So many great people

  • @chrismarsh1067
    @chrismarsh1067 Před 5 lety

    I’m a deer in the headlights on the subject but great to see people who love their work.
    I’d love to learn more other than turning on my iPad and watching CZcams but after watching this brief Stonemasonry looks so much easier in my head just my body hates it hahaha

  • @glorytoarstotzka330
    @glorytoarstotzka330 Před 5 lety

    everyone can do programming , but how useful you find it to be , it remmains for you

  • @Logicianable
    @Logicianable Před 4 lety

    🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.......👍 I love those people, they do amazing work, and thank you for this video 👍

  • @icurtispe
    @icurtispe Před 5 lety

    Excellent documentary :)

  • @jimbobago
    @jimbobago Před 5 měsíci

    I can't tell you how much I wish I could afford to buy Knuth's books.

  • @PixelOutlaw
    @PixelOutlaw Před 8 lety +7

    I've written in ASM, C, C++, Python, Common Lisp, Scheme, Racket, BASIC and LOGO.
    I do it as a recreational activity. I find that I prefer the Lisp family and Python most for their expressiveness.
    It is important to use the right tool for the job and stick with the tools that fit your hand best. Don't go chasing every new language and framework or you never learn any of them deeply.
    For a good source for recreational programming I'd highly suggest Alexander Dewdney's books. They may be old but they are written in a language agnostic psuedocode so you can try all the recreations in your native programming language.

    • @saptarshisahoo5075
      @saptarshisahoo5075 Před 8 lety

      +PixelOutlaw Did'nt you try java..?And BASIC and LOGO are little old ya know...

    • @PixelOutlaw
      @PixelOutlaw Před 8 lety +4

      +Uzumaki Saptarshi
      I have used Java and C#. I don't care for them. They are too rooted in strongly typed systems and homogeneous containers.
      I don't use BASIC (any variant) much and LOGO was just for a MIT book.
      It is important to use a language that you like. Languages don't get outdated as long as you can get compiler or interpreter for them. Even so, you can always make your own implementation if the language spec is freely available.
      Languages in the Lisp family allow you add new syntax to the language which is *very* uncommon and worth toying with. For example strict scheme lacks a while loop. You can actually define such a construct if you want it. Not many languages actually let you define new syntax without modifying a compiler.
      Imagine that Java lacked a language feature. You could do nothing about it until it was written into the standard and implemented into an interpreter. This is why the Lisp family is known as the Programmable programming language". You get to define new parts at will.

    • @eliasbouhout1
      @eliasbouhout1 Před 8 lety

      +PixelOutlaw
      I think that learning lots of languages could help sometimes,when I started coding I choosed Python to be my first programming language,but before learning C++ I couldn't really program like a real programmer,I wasn't using definition,classes etc because I,at first,thought that they wasn't really usefull,but after coding in C++ and other languages I learned how usefull they could be and how to use them effectively.
      You can add your own syntax in almost every programming language,just use "define" (for C++,C# and Python) like:
      define AddNumbers(x, y){
      sum = x + y;
      return sum;
      }
      Then in your main body you can just:
      AddNumbers(5, 7);
      cout

    • @saptarshisahoo5075
      @saptarshisahoo5075 Před 8 lety

      Elias Bouhout
      can i do that thing in c? i mean u are using define to make a function not a macro so is it valid?

    • @eliasbouhout1
      @eliasbouhout1 Před 8 lety

      Uzumaki Saptarshi I'm not sure because I don't know C# really well and I have to finish learning it,but you can definitely do that in C++ and python.

  • @KJVideoMinistries
    @KJVideoMinistries Před 2 lety

    Fantastic video! My wife would agree with me that this video blows away any classroom-based "education" people pay an arm and a leg for.
    I never attended a College/ University, but my wife spent 10 years researching what Academia is about, at every type of campus: making a mountain out of a molehill.

    • @ruben-xt8hm
      @ruben-xt8hm Před rokem

      what does that have to do with computer science or programming

    • @KJVideoMinistries
      @KJVideoMinistries Před rokem

      @@ruben-xt8hm Everything. You can learn about Computer Science and Programming through self-study (e.g., videos such as this one and paper-based books), instead of paying an exorbitant amount of money for the same information at the Vatican's EHM's College/ University campuses. Academia never tells you the truth because all they care about is pumping people through the system as quickly as possible in order to pay off their Mortgages and MBSs while claiming "education".
      [2 Timothy 3:7 (KJV) Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.]

  • @eduardodaniellucianorivera4389

    I loved software, but I completely felt in love with this amazing video

  • @aliboukaroui
    @aliboukaroui Před 4 lety +1

    Im C# developer ( Games and Apps ) ...Im really proud to be programmer 😍

  • @koaasst
    @koaasst Před 4 lety +1

    that high from making something that works. i crave it so much!!!!! the down when youre on the way though can be so frustrating lol!

  • @AlexA-qm7pu
    @AlexA-qm7pu Před 4 lety +1

    Good motivational video. I can’t imagine how many students are being deceived. I have been creating software for 30 years. There is as much truth here as in the video about working at an automobile plant and calling this work “poetry” just because modern cars often look beautiful. Work at the factory is not poetry. Do not confuse software for artists with art. Creating software is a 90-95% tedious routine; it's engineering, not art.

  • @khaleddoda
    @khaleddoda Před 7 lety

    Fantastic, Thank you.

  • @demonicious_
    @demonicious_ Před 4 lety

    This video made me happy.

  • @krithigaravichandran8141
    @krithigaravichandran8141 Před 3 lety +1

    Jamie: "Computers are very very dumb".
    Google Assistant: "Say what?"

    • @beri4138
      @beri4138 Před 3 lety

      Can Google Assistant make me a fucking salad or is she dumb as a toe? That's what I thought.

  • @gamebeatco
    @gamebeatco Před 2 lety

    good, science of software using hardware to create code and number buildings, love it

  • @vvhh9578
    @vvhh9578 Před rokem

    Informative and beautiful video to compare piano and computers.... data processing and compiling must be complex .and challenging involving those ASCII standards and logical gates and data base engineering

  • @jarno4054
    @jarno4054 Před 6 lety

    Very interesting video, thx my friend

  • @ruhinhossain9012
    @ruhinhossain9012 Před 8 lety +2

    I love programming very much

  • @NickT6630
    @NickT6630 Před 5 lety +13

    I love coding in Z80 assembler. Been doing it almost 30 years.

    • @SerBallister
      @SerBallister Před 5 lety

      What needs Z80 programs these days ?

    • @NickT6630
      @NickT6630 Před 5 lety +11

      @@SerBallister weather stations, security alarms, space probes, satnav, calculators, drum machines, synthesizers, washing machine control, robots, telescope star tracker, lift controller, oven temperature controller, dot matrix message display boards, personal computer running CPM, single board computers used in education, retro games console, ZX Spectrum clones, mobile phones, battery chargers, telecommunications, bar code scanner, factory automated production lines, electric typewriter, printers, fax machine, CNC machine, 3D printer.

    • @ikkusoft
      @ikkusoft Před 5 lety

      Is it used for 8051 uC?

    • @SerBallister
      @SerBallister Před 5 lety

      @@NickT6630 I'm suprised they are still in use.

    • @NickT6630
      @NickT6630 Před 5 lety +1

      @@SerBallister a search of the term "z80" will bring up loads of results, mostly computer enthusiasts keeping it alive but its been used in many applications over its lifetime.

  • @dixztube
    @dixztube Před rokem

    This was so good. New sub!

  • @antoshka132
    @antoshka132 Před 8 lety

    Visual effects in your videos are just awesome. What program do you use by the way?

  • @abhishekborthakur6385
    @abhishekborthakur6385 Před 6 lety +1

    Why is this video not 1 billion views yet??

    • @kellerrobert80
      @kellerrobert80 Před 5 lety

      Because it's the history of software, rather than the Art of Writing software as the title implies.

  • @DihelsonMendonca
    @DihelsonMendonca Před 8 lety +2

    I love ComputerHistory !!!

  • @mhcbon4606
    @mhcbon4606 Před 5 lety

    not so often can we hear about what it really means to program. Thanks for this work, overall good.

  • @WowaDreamer
    @WowaDreamer Před 5 lety

    What a great video! So inspirational. I see why I am studying CS without any passion for mathematics but I am forcing myself to understand. Thank you

    • @AnotherGlenn
      @AnotherGlenn Před 5 lety +1

      I remember loving physics without having a passion for math. Once you see the math as being useful, the passion will occur. I sucked at math, and I made it all the way to college before I finally figured out that I didn't fully comprehend algebra.

    • @beri4138
      @beri4138 Před 3 lety

      @@AnotherGlenn Fuck matrices bro

    • @huskiehuskerson5300
      @huskiehuskerson5300 Před 2 lety

      @@AnotherGlenn so now

  • @_mazfaa
    @_mazfaa Před rokem

    Amazing !

  • @vitordeoliveira6139
    @vitordeoliveira6139 Před 3 lety

    I love my profession soo much

  • @MalamIbnMalam
    @MalamIbnMalam Před 8 lety

    Excellent video

  • @DeefexNYC
    @DeefexNYC Před 6 lety +56

    "My first computer was in '57". Lol, make alll of us feel like NooBs why don't cha. Lol

  • @pranishshrestha4781
    @pranishshrestha4781 Před 8 lety +41

    3 cheers for all we IT people !!

  • @projectomega9405
    @projectomega9405 Před 7 lety +5

    Wow such knowledge... Much power... I feel like a creator or a God after watching this vid... Amazing

  • @DistroStudios
    @DistroStudios Před 5 lety +6

    Proud to be a developer ❤. Any other developers here?

    • @MRQUIN-mx1pt
      @MRQUIN-mx1pt Před 5 lety

      Whats your FB name
      And describe your profile

    • @FandCCD
      @FandCCD Před 5 lety

      Not pro but hopefully one day. I’m currently dabbling in AVR Assembler, which I LOVE! But I’d like to one day be fluent in C and C++.

    • @franciscovarela7127
      @franciscovarela7127 Před 4 lety

      More happy than proud.

  • @learnearnown8456
    @learnearnown8456 Před 5 lety

    Great quality I like it

  • @marzi8456
    @marzi8456 Před 4 lety

    great video for sure

  • @ThaoMiy
    @ThaoMiy Před 8 lety

    That's a nice clip. It's a nice idea to make a comparison with music - everyone can imagine something with music and likes music. I

  • @muhammadahmed4605
    @muhammadahmed4605 Před 3 lety

    Love it!

  • @rider18287
    @rider18287 Před 6 lety

    Wow! Tnq so much sir

  • @DiestroCorleone
    @DiestroCorleone Před 5 lety +1

    Beautiful :')

  • @kornbread5359
    @kornbread5359 Před 4 lety +1

    Art, that it is. Me being a musician i have a knack for code, only been learning a year and building my own distributed computing server.
    What about the software artists who practice a different form of art through software. Like digital music studio creators. Computers are so powerful. Amazing what the human mind can create.

  • @EmmanuelVenturaSilva
    @EmmanuelVenturaSilva Před 6 lety +1

    Love computers ❤

  • @jagmarc
    @jagmarc Před rokem

    Something about being a 'softy' these days, ... you never can have enough display screens left open ready to look at and jump around, and each screen is split further into windows. One for MySQL operations another for backend server tools another two for main coding, linked to another one for cut-paste code snippets, one for websearches , one for frontend (multiple instances) app testing, linked to more windows for html/css/js/etc debugging . And even that's not enough and sometimes have to print out a list or bring in a portable PC or tablet and course a cellphone

  • @prateekpanwar646
    @prateekpanwar646 Před 5 lety

    You made me enter COMMANDO mode

  • @MrFTW733
    @MrFTW733 Před 4 lety

    Programming languages to computers are the finely tuned gears to a clock.