programming – Andrew Orlowski

Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism

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Andrew Orlowski

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18 April 2012

The writer Toby Young tells a story about how the modern 100m race is run in primary schools. At the starting pistol, everyone runs like mad. At the 50m point, the fastest children stop and wait for the fatties to catch up. Then all the youngsters walk across the finishing line together, holding hands. I…

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Verity Stob – programming’s funniest memoir

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Andrew Orlowski

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4 February 2005

As anyone who’s ever done it professionally knows, programming computers isn’t as glamorous as they make out in the movies. Take for example, Independence Day, where the hero lashes together a program in 30 minutes and conjures up a piece of code that saves the world. Have you ever seen anyone do in that real life?…

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The Cell chip – what it is, and why you should care

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Andrew Orlowski

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1 February 2005

Part 1: A look at how it works No chip in years has caused as much excitement as the Cell processor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. It promises to be the most important microprocessor of the decade, with potentially enormous repercussions for how the industry computes, and how the rest of us use digital…

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Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism

Verity Stob – programming’s funniest memoir

The Cell chip – what it is, and why you should care