For many people, programmers are aliens from other planets with a special mindset and way of thinking. In this article, we open the door to the world of IT professionals and share with you some unusual and interesting facts about coding!
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I'm a programmer, you're a programmer, he's a programmer
In the future, programming and tech savvy will be almost as important as reading and literacy are today. Just imagine: the US currently has a literacy rate of 99%. What if 99% of the population learns to program? It seems to smell like a real technological breakthrough!
Choose your language wisely!
It turns out that a programming language influences how a programmer thinks, affecting not only his workflow, but also other areas of life. According to Dutch scientist Edsger Dijkstra, the tools we use have a profound impact on our thinking habits, and therefore on our mental abilities.
Activate the brain
Surprisingly, students with programming experience score 16 percentile points more when testing cognitive abilities than students who have never coded.
The snake has nothing to do with it
Guido van Rossum, creator of one of the most famous programming languages, named it Python after an old BBC comedy sketch series called Monty Python's Flying Circus.
All ages are submissive to programming
Russia's oldest programmer is over 80! Evgeny Polishchuk lives in Saint Petersburg. He started programming back in the USSR on giant computers, and coding was his hobby at that time. But during perestroika, Yevgeny realized that he should turn his hobby into a full-fledged profession. Luckily, he accidentally came across an ad inviting everyone to programming courses. Now Evgeny takes a variety of orders and is not inferior to young programmers in knowledge and skills. He even developed his own high-speed programming system, which helped many people learn coding from scratch.
How do I understand you?
It's no secret that programmers communicate in their own language, which seems completely foreign to mere “mortals”. Thus, the word “toad” in IT slang means the Java programming language, “snake” means Python, and “puff” means PHP.
I built a monument to myself that was miraculous...
Programmers are irreplaceable specialists in our age, and monuments are even erected to them! For example, in Kharkiv, there is a sculptural composition depicting a software student sitting on a bench and working on a laptop.
They plan to place the sculptural composition “Programmer” in one of the parks of the Udmurt Republic. The young man will look thoughtfully at the screen, holding on to the chair. On the table, in addition to the computer, monitor and keyboard, there will be an attribute of all IT specialists — a mug, as well as a cat playing with a mouse.
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