#programming

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#beyond #exposure #good #had #hope

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bad idea #california #could #exceptionally #idea

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings. ↗

— Will McDonough

#around #big #built #educational #enough

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#been #career #career path #chose #consider

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. ↗

— John Carmack

#low-level #programmer #programming #soul

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. ↗

— Jim Henson

#children #days #ended #felt #kind

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#based #bass #definitely #drum #especially