Learn Code: Be bilingual

[August1991]

Educated people can understand the notation of mathematics.

Years ago, I was a poor tourist in Belgrad on a tram, I recall looking down at the book of the person beside me.

It was gibberish. But I understood the math.  

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I think all educated people should also "speak" a computer code.

Whether Python, Javascript or C# - or even COBOL - learn another language.

Edited February 28, 2024 by August1991

[Michael Hardner]

13 minutes ago, August1991 said:

Educated people can understand the notation of mathematics.

Years ago, I was a poor tourist in Belgrad on a tram, I recall looking down at the book of the person beside me.

It was gibberish. But I understood the math.  

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I think all educated people should also "speak" a computer code.

Whether Python, Javascript or C# - or even COBOL - learn another language.

What we really need is layman's explanation of philosophy.

[August1991]

3 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

What we really need is layman's explanation of philosophy.

No, I mean write code.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg could all write code.

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BTW, the person  in Belgrad (Serbia, Yugoslavia at the time) had a textbook about linear algebra, the inverse of a matrix.

 

Edited February 28, 2024 by August1991

[Michael Hardner]

7 hours ago, August1991 said:

No, I mean write code.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg could all write code.

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BTW, the person  in Belgrad (Serbia, Yugoslavia at the time) had a textbook about linear algebra, the inverse of a matrix.

Linear algebra is an example of mathematics that made everyone's lives better in the 20th century. And nobody knows about it.

I doubt that Steve Jobs could write code of any use

[August1991]

On 2/28/2024 at 8:22 AM, Michael Hardner said:

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I doubt that Steve Jobs could write code of any use

I disagree. Define "code".

I know that Gates and Zuckerberg could write code. (Heck, Gates stole/created the code of an operating system.)

 

 

[Legato]

5 minutes ago, August1991 said:

I disagree. Define "code".

I know that Gates and Zuckerberg could write code. (Heck, Gates stole/created the code of an operating system.)

 

 

You mean MS Dos (dirty operating system) CP/M was elegant by comparison.

[August1991]

15 minutes ago, Legato said:

You mean MS Dos (dirty operating system) CP/M was elegant by comparison.

Q-DOS = Quick and dirty operating system

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Jobs was obsessed with PostScript. I'm sure he wrote code.

Edited March 1, 2024 by August1991

[August1991]

On 2/28/2024 at 8:22 AM, Michael Hardner said:

Linear algebra is an example of mathematics that made everyone's lives better in the 20th century. And nobody knows about it.

Let me return to my OP.

Many people cannot understand what I am posting, but most people around the world can read the symbols:

3 + 4 = ?

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We are some 8 billion people. Amazing. 

 

[Michael Hardner]

1 hour ago, August1991 said:

I disagree. Define "code".

I know that Gates and Zuckerberg could write code. (Heck, Gates stole/created the code of an operating system.)

 

 

Computer programming language.

1 hour ago, August1991 said:

I disagree. Define "code".

I know that Gates and Zuckerberg could write code. (Heck, Gates stole/created the code of an operating system.)

 

 

https://www.quora.com/How-good-were-Bill-Gates-and-the-late-Steve-Jobs-at-programming-1#:~:text=Does Steve Jobs know how to code%3F&text=Steve didn't ever code,and add to other designs.

 

Wozniak said Jobs did not code.

[Michael Hardner]

43 minutes ago, August1991 said:

Let me return to my OP.

Many people cannot understand what I am posting, but most people around the world can read the symbols:

3 + 4 = ?

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We are some 8 billion people. Amazing. 

 

What I think is also amazing, not to take away from your point, is convergence on a global culture. Culture firstly centered around liberalism, small l

 

[herbie]

But coding still requires words as commands. Math uses symbols.

Compiled machine code is definitely not easy to read. Even back in the 8 bit PET-Vic20 days...

[August1991]

On 3/1/2024 at 5:08 PM, herbie said:

But coding still requires words as commands. Math uses symbols.

Compiled machine code is definitely not easy to read. Even back in the 8 bit PET-Vic20 days...

Since many children cannot read English, they cannot understand these words I am posting here.

Yet billions (billions!) of children can read, understand and solve this problem:

3 + 4 = ?

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I am old. We live in a new world