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Daily Archives: June 16, 2014

Computer programming is hard!

16 Monday Jun 2014

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101, Opinion

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computer programmer, computer programming, computer science, software, software design, software development

Computer Programming is hard! It’s at least as hard as what commercial architects do, and I will argue that it’s as intellectually difficult as what doctors and lawyers do.

Many people think it’s easy, because they know some nine-year-old who “programs,” but there’s a difference between fooling around with the computer and building good software applications.

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