How do computer programs work?
How do computers work? (Explain That Stuff!)What is a computer program? (Wikipedia)How does a computer program work? (Dummies)How do computer languages work? (The Linux Documentation Project)How does coding work? (code conquest)How Java works (How Stuff Works, Tech)Readings Bookshop: The beautifully programmed website Johnny was talking about (Readings)Icelab: The people who programmed the lovely website (Icelab)Dyson vaccuums: An example of putting thought into something that sucks & making it better (no pun intended) (Dyson)What is an algorithm? (Wikipedia)What is a computer algorithm? (How Stuff Works, Tech)An algorithm for making a cup of tea (Aristides S. Bouras)What are heuristics in computer science? (Wikipedia)Alan Turing: Creator of modern computing (BBC, iWonder)What is a Turing machine? (University of Cambridge)Why do computers crash? (Scientific American)The Mac spinning beach ball of death (The X Lab)The Windows hourglass wait cursor (Wikipedia)The history of Microsoft Word: Version 1.0 was written by two guys in 1981 (Wikipedia)Microsoft Word 1.0 for Macintosh screenshots (Knubbel Mac)Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to the public (Microsoft, TechNet)What are abstraction layers? (Wikipedia)Programming language (Wikipedia)High-level programming language (Wikipedia)Which programming languages does Google use internally? (Quora)Microsoft Word was apparently written in Visual C++ (MYCPLUS|COM)There are hundreds of computer languages, which one you pick depends on what you want to achieve (Wikipedia)A comparison of programming languages (Cprogramming.com)Why are there so few female prgrammers? 'When women stopped coding' (NPR, Planet Money)Computer programming used to be women's work (Smithsonian)What is an 'event' in computing? (Wikipedia)Impress your friends & colleagues: Translate anything into binary code! (binarytranslator.com)Computer language interpreters (Wikipedia)What is machine code? (Wikipedia)A picture of binary code (factfile)A picture of hex code (hexblog)What is an operating system? (Wikipedia)Unix & Unix-like operating systems (Wikipedia)The Unix philosophy: 'Create small modular utilities that do one thing & do them well' (How-To Geek)What is a Rube Goldberg machine? (Wikipedia)What is recursion? (Wikipedia)What is a 'library' in computing? (Webopedia)What is a 'library' in computing? (Wikipedia)What is a driver? It's another kind of interpreter that helps you 'drive' a particular piece of hardware (Webopedia)Corrections
LARGE DISCLAIMER: At the end when we talk about Amazon, it might be another company that Johnny was thinking of. I can't find evidence that they've banned meetings, just PowerPoint (Moving People To Action). We'll post a link when we figure out where this information came from & if it was about a different company. For now just think of it as 'Company X' who have implemented a freakin' great ideaThis is potentially the source for the above, a long read but interesting (Stevey's Google Platforms Rant, Steve Yegge)Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold)
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