The Delights Of Programming

Content Some day we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself Oh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more! Exactly! And do you know the industry ten for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program? Code It's called code Uh no.... CommitStrip.com

Content Replace a semicolon ; with a greek question mark (;) in your friend's JavaScript and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error.

Content Program: Runs Properly Me: Tries to optimize it Program now: well now I am not doing it

Content Team Project Guys we can't figure out how to open lwjgl 16:52 Who 17:02 Bruv it's simple Double click 17:03 17:03 Double click what 17:03 The file It opens 17:03 17:03 It's a zip 17:03 Extract

The eternal Tom and Jerry dynamic, but make it programming. You spend hours wielding your debugging hammer with murderous intent, convinced you're about to smash that bug into oblivion. Meanwhile, the bug is just casually chilling on your hammer, completely untouchable and probably laughing at your futile efforts. The more aggressively you debug, the more the bug seems to mock your existence from its safe perch. Classic case of looking everywhere except where the problem actually is—usually a missing semicolon or an off-by-one error that's right in front of your face.

Content Ber You write your first computer science paper as a student but think it's not good enough for publication A professor likes it and convinces you to at least put it on arXiv Bernie it gets 2 citations in a year Berni it gets 5 citations in less than 2 years and some of them are published in reputable journals