"The Timeless Way of Building" taught me that building is what the prototype engineer is after. I believe that all Men desire to build. The question each one will ask, if they are to meet their requirement, is, "what?"
Programming is Natural because it satisfies Man's basic desire -- building. Programming happens when a man decides he wishes to define his knowledge, that he might refer to his work to guide him foreward.
The end of a program is a solution to a problem. In fact, the program itself perfectly defines both the problem and the solution. As does any totally volitional human act.
A young woman with a computer will discover abstract pattern and utilize it in real life before her peers without computers.
Computer software is as imaginary as a fable. To the person who sees the logic and applies it to her life, then does it become real.
As for the specific issue in this thread -- does it matter? Microsoft is transient. Unix is transient. Is soap defined by Lever 2000, Ivory? The world of software is as eternal as intelligence. Intelligence lasts longer than ideology or brand.
Anyone learning anything about computers is adding value to their life, and in turn, adding value to all our lives as they join us on the web.
I would gamble that most of the people reading this post who program got their start on a PC running DOS or Windows.. Whether you turned to unix or not, it is your desire to improve the world you live in, or program in, that determined your path. It probably wasn't the market share of one company or another in end-user software.
I wonder how many open-source unix nuts are going to bubble out of these Microsoft workshops... and how many young stars will evolve the software for their own ends -- the desire to build and shine at it.
That there are workshops at all is grand! Regardless of party, kids on computers in any setting is noble. When a kid see the power that is before her, she will want more. And the kid that learns programming will be a rational human being.
Every molecule in my mind belongs to me. If I happen to hear you sing a song, the song enters my mind, the version therein belongs to me. I own every magnetic bit in my computer. I own every scrap of paper in my house. If you don't want other people to own information that you yourself own, don't give it to them. No alternative to this will be enforceable by government or any other armed mob in perpetuity.
SimCity 3k is the game I so wanted to love, but couldn't play for more than 5 minutes without thinking, "This is boring. I hate cities built by these sort of rules. I'm wasting my valuable time."
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I will add Meta-HTML to the list. My company uses it for everything, including our intranet. I have built an object oriented module for it that offers a MOOish functionality -- which in my opinion is the best solution for an intranet.
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Programming is Natural because it satisfies Man's basic desire -- building. Programming happens when a man decides he wishes to define his knowledge, that he might refer to his work to guide him foreward.
The end of a program is a solution to a problem. In fact, the program itself perfectly defines both the problem and the solution. As does any totally volitional human act.
A young woman with a computer will discover abstract pattern and utilize it in real life before her peers without computers.
Computer software is as imaginary as a fable. To the person who sees the logic and applies it to her life, then does it become real.
As for the specific issue in this thread -- does it matter? Microsoft is transient. Unix is transient. Is soap defined by Lever 2000, Ivory? The world of software is as eternal as intelligence. Intelligence lasts longer than ideology or brand.
Anyone learning anything about computers is adding value to their life, and in turn, adding value to all our lives as they join us on the web.
I would gamble that most of the people reading this post who program got their start on a PC running DOS or Windows.. Whether you turned to unix or not, it is your desire to improve the world you live in, or program in, that determined your path. It probably wasn't the market share of one company or another in end-user software.
I wonder how many open-source unix nuts are going to bubble out of these Microsoft workshops... and how many young stars will evolve the software for their own ends -- the desire to build and shine at it.
That there are workshops at all is grand! Regardless of party, kids on computers in any setting is noble. When a kid see the power that is before her, she will want more. And the kid that learns programming will be a rational human being.
Cheesily yours,
Joshua
Every molecule in my mind belongs to me. If I happen to hear you sing a song, the song enters my mind, the version therein belongs to me. I own every magnetic bit in my computer. I own every scrap of paper in my house. If you don't want other people to own information that you yourself own, don't give it to them. No alternative to this will be enforceable by government or any other armed mob in perpetuity.
SimCity 3k is the game I so wanted to love, but couldn't play for more than 5 minutes without thinking, "This is boring. I hate cities built by these sort of rules. I'm wasting my valuable time."
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I will add Meta-HTML to the list. My company uses it for everything, including our intranet. I have built an object oriented module for it that offers a MOOish functionality -- which in my opinion is the best solution for an intranet.
www.metahtml.com
Contact me for info on the OOM/MOO.