The Art of Writing Software
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- CHM Exhibition "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing"
Software is more than obscure computer code. It’s an art form: a meticulously-crafted literature that enables complex conversations between humans and machines. From FORTRAN to sophisticated programs in use today, discover the technology, creativity, hard work, and technique behind these elegant languages. Software pioneers share their stories.
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Although I'm just an amateur, I can definitely understand how Knuth and others feel when they write code. It's like building something, planning the Empire State Building, then building it yourself. The feeling you get when it's finished is almost indescribable. I suppose the same as when a architect sees his building after finished, or when a musical group writes a song and hears it on the radio. A great feeling.
Five years later... are you advanced now?
How good are you now?
Dying to know where u are know?
Since, I'm an amateur now and probably at a place you were 7 years ago
Bro you alive if so tell us how much you have learnt in these past 7 years
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I remember writing my own assembler, in Basic, for the Commodore 64 when I was 14 back in the mid 80s. Writing machine code in pure decimal was quite painful, so I wrote an assembler to make it easier. Being able to code using mnemonics was a huge leap for me.
I remember my very first machine code program on the C64 was moving a sprite across the screen. When I ran the program it just looked like a blur, and I thought it was a bug until I realised it was just moving really fast. I had to put a load of NOP instructions in to slow it down. Happy memories, and all these years later I'm still doing it (in C++) and still loving it. Plus it's provided me with a good career. I love software.
@referral madness NOP means no operation. The instruction delays the process for 1 clock cycle.
Jesus, st that age i didnt know what code even was
getting a high from coding... I know that feeling.
yes you feel like god
Welcome to the club!
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Just began learning. I thought I was weird because I have to pry myself off every time
Indica951
if you practice coding making games.... your probably get an even bigger high.
Writing software is like writing literature or poerty for me; and I write software for people to read as well as computers to execute. It's art to me. 💙💚💜 It is a set of magical incantations that come to life!
Coding is like an extension of your thought, it runs when you want to make something happen again and it runs super fast. Even when you are not there to make sure it runs, if it is crafted well, it can run over and over again, like a part of your mind but efficient and unrelenting. The feeling that I get from successfully implementing a feature is euphoric and addictive. I absolutely love writing good code, especially when it can run even when you are asleep.
Programming is literally an art. Not everyone has the eye or mind for it.
Shahzy B it allows you to see how people think
Strangely, it also predisposes you to being able to decipher legalese. Lawyers have a lot to hide.
but remember with BASIC and a little patience, anybody can learn to code. In about 5 minutes you can have someone modifying a hello world sketch and adding their own extra print statements, and then in another 5 minutes you can have them writing complex calculators (i.e. add a bunch of numbers from the user and divide by n, to get the average). and boom you've made a programmer out of the schoolteacher or a laborer or what have you.
now, after that point, the ones with the aptitude and the code high will be the ones chasing file tree sorters.
Is not an art really. Is an art programming with less code possible, So everyone can read it.
No much code make it better, but not less code meke it neither.
Readable, scalable and workable is the perfect code
@@chrismofer I wouldn't classify someone making an average or editing the message of a print as a programmer...the same way i wouldn't call a guy hitting a random guitar chord once a musician.
Can't wait for what the future holds in technology and software.
@TheLogicJunkie 😕
@TheLogicJunkie from the future i guess
Beautiful video. Brought me to tears at the end. I've never been a professional programmer, and never will be, but I find coding syntax to be beautiful. I find the abstraction of lower level instructions hidden by a print( "hello world") to be beautiful.
Practice makes perfect.
I find programming similar to solving a puzzle. Stressful at time but so happy when I accomplished it. There’s def a difference between beautiful codes and ugly ones. It’s like writing. Some can write beautifully and some writes with nothing but grammatical errors.
The guy at the start who spoke so passionately about programming as eash new line of code giving him a high and making him feel good.. only a programmer I think can truly understand what he's conveying.
I'm a programmer myself, self-taught. My first program was in BASIC before modern deskop computers became more affordable and commonplace. I borrowed a friends BBC Micro which he used exclusively for playing games on, like most people. Nobody I knew thought to try programming one. So my friend was puzzled when he saw that black screen and cursor flashing. He asked if I'd broken the computer. I reassured him it was not broken, just awaiting instructions.
I remember writing my first program in BASIC which was a simple print hello loop pressing enter and seeing it work (after a few trial and errors) and my second program added two numbers together. Seeing the second program run and do math was astonishing. I experienced that feeling of awe and the high programmer described. I began thinking, how can I expand this program to do different type of math, beyond just addition, and soon it did.
Programming is both a science and a creative act. It's almost like modern form of alchemy in many ways, providing the ability to manipulate matter and energy using a machine and languge code. Complex ideas from your mind can become realised in the physical world through programming. It's kind of magical and empowering. The only limit is your imagination.
I remember writing my first real program. Several thousand lines of code written in Perl. The program was a comprehensive Web-based eBay seller manager which interfaced directly to eBay using their API. Back then, eBay was still very crude. It lacked so many simple time saving features and obvious ways to improve and optimise businesses selling on eBay. So I studied the API closely and used it to help sellers get the most out of eBay and save a great deal of time. I overcame limitations in the API with a little creative thinking and programming, to go further to surpass the limitations.
It wasn't long before my program reached around 37,000 lines of code. With not a single subroutine and no error handling! It soon became difficult to improve further and to debug errors. So I reached out to the programmer community and found someone who became a programming mentor and a close friend for many years. He told me my program was the ugliest program he'd ever seen and absolutely hideous! However he was impressed I'd managed to write such a large first program and overcome API limitations with programming but that in so, I had massively over-complicated the program by not using existing objects, due to my lack of programming knowledge and experience. He taught me the disciplines of programming. The need for subroutines, error handling, neat correct syntax, clear commenting explaining what the subroutines did, and so on. Then he taught me how to use and create objects and SQL quering which took my programming to the next level. We later collaborated together on developing an algorithm for trading financial markets.
Programming is extremely satisifying. Seeing something go from an idea in your mind, to a flow chart, then to a running computer program that does something truly unique And it's even more rewarding when your code is used by others, who derive benefits and you receive praise or acknowledgement for making someones life a bit easier or better.
Despite programmers having the stereotype image of being loner geeks who don't socialise, the programming community is very socially connected. Ideas, knowledge and skills flow freely between programmers in a way not seen anywhere else. Many programmers are willing to share their time, knowledge and often source code freely, to help others. Solving problems and learning new things together is what makes programming so special. It's what enables software and hardware technology to continually improve and evolve.
It's a priviledge being part of a diverse worldwide community of programmers which transcends all cultures and countries. Many programmers have gone on to achieve remarkable things or businesses that have impacted or changed the world forever. And they usually relied upon other programmers. Take the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. A programmer who in the midst of the 2008 banking crisis had a vision for a de-centralised digital currency. He started the programming himself and then formed a small team. Gradually it evolved into a worldwide community that realised the concept behind his ingenious blockchain ledger and nodes approach. And now its created many spin-offs and an entire digital currency ecosystem, all from one man and one idea.
good read . thanks
Your ebay and mentor story is almost exactly like mine!
*writes a 7 line code
*gets 47 errors
Don't get high before writing the code
best assignment mark i got in CS 1 was an assignment that i completed cooked out of my fuckin mind
Getting high can be very inspirational and motivating. CAN BE.
Builds a simple generator to produce every possible combination of 'ones' and 'zeroes'. I just wrote every possible program.
Faaactz🤦🏾♂️😂
/Bklyn👑
Judging by how you said that I can tell that you've never written a program
Project: *is small*
Node developers: *REQUIRES 500 PACKAGES FROM NPM*
Ah yes, the 500 or so packages that depend on 'left-pad'. Good times.
Node devs are not only a disgrace to the JS community, but to the entire programming community alltogether
Bunny why?
@@xavierang9459 I'm a JS developer, and honestly having to deal with 300MB node_modules folders is a mess, especially when what you're trying to make is relatively simple
@@okie9025 why not use php instead
A nice walk down memory lane for those of us educated in the late 60's/early 70's and active in the field throughout our careers. Also an easy way to pick up some history of the field.
Ok boomer
@@Fakezyz Congratulations, you called someone a boomer, here are your 2 Internet Points
Your balance is now 24
@@Fakezyz what the heck man? you're talking to someone who helped build the modern world we live in. Being a disrespectful little poosy online just cause your parents hate you isn't going to fix your situation. And plus, everyone here knows you don't talk like this in real life, so why be a funny guy online? Cause you're safe? lol like father like son.
@@Fakezyz Why are you mean? Are you unsure of yourself? It makes you feel better to make others seem smaller?
As someone who wants to major in computer science, this video was really informative. Thank you.
xStillo yea for newbees it is
Well, you have to start somewhere... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don Kluth's enthusiasm brings a smile to my face, I wish I liked anything as much as he likes programming. His love for the field really shows.
combining all these information in one video is also an Art!
For people young like me it is great to learn from the pioneers in the field. A lot of programmers my age don't really have a concept of how the higher languages developed over the course of a lifetime. When people here of fortran or assembly they think it is the most archaic thing they have ever herd.
hear*
4:51 should end in a ; not a :
@steve gale no the bottom line, all SQL statements are terminated with a semicolon but they just used a colon.
well spotted
@@deadaccount3994 yes you are indeed correct. I have no words that they didn't spot the colon while editing. But there are also few criteria where colons are used (watched in a GeoHot vid). However, here a semicolon is the right choice
YES that got me mildly infuriated as well
What a great production quality. I wish this was just the introduction to a 2 hour video
Found it amusing as a professional software engineer. Thanks internet.
This video was just awesome. It just puts everything into perspective. And makes the somewhat unbelievable and magicly unreal aspect of how computers work to showing us that it works that way because thats how we want it to.
Simply beautiful! it's amazing the capacity of the human's brain to create things with a such level of complexity
I always say to my students and apprentices, programming is 50% technical and 50% art. You can't master programming computers without being technical AND artistical.
I am about to start mt Data Structure class and my Introduction to Programming Languages for my CS degree .. i am excited there isn't anything better then understanding how a computer works in my opinion
I love how they included assembly language, that's cool
What a greatly made movie! I enjoyed it a lot, especially the vintage feel and it somehow was really cozy.
This video sparks love for programming in me again! Just inspiring! Donald Knuth, live long and prosper!
Finally a general video of coding history. How come no one talks about the history of computers.
Yes has always been an art, a technique perfected through years of practice with dedication and love on what you do
Thank's for recognizing our artists talents. Many people don't
Learning and applying the craft is very exciting, almost limitless possibilities. The responsibility relies on understanding and correctly applying the theory, as opposed to making things that seem to work. In the latter an example was someone putting delays in a program. He said the if you use 5 delays this funky bug would go away, so he put in 10 delays in the final code just to ‘make sure, well it worked ....until months later when the system was under heavy use ... the funky bug returned.... the root cause of the funky bug was 1 wrong bit in a configuration register! I don’t know if 100 delay Benjamin’s would be enough! But flipping the bit fixed
Computerizing, as an executer so to say, is giving me pleasure and beside my age i still like working with them, thanks and kind regards.
Educational and awesome..thanks for sharing...
I’m a competetive programmer and I find this video true and deserving !
My very first computer was a TRS-80 Model I 16K Level II. I used to poke assembly into the memory that was before I heard of MASM. That made it lots easier.
getting error is a part of programming so don't give up,
just fall in love with it..
Funny timing. This is the first time I have seen Donald Knuth though I have know the name for more that 45 years. Even more interesting, we were clearing out a bunch of books yesterday and two of the books I saved were 2 volumes from Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming." - specifically the volumes on Fundamental Algorithms and Sorting and Searching. They still have value.
This was a nugget of gold. Thank you.
I am so delighted and so happy to see young Don.
Very well produced video! Thanks for this. Highly informative
A job well done in any business gives a good feeling. Especially if it is ground breaking and opens up a lot of possibilities.
Programming in assembler tedious? I think not! I still love it, 60 years on.
I used to love the VIC20 and C64 when I was a kid. Now, I program PLCs for factory automation. I went to a decent college for electronics. Lot's of lab work. Good decisions. Also, computers aren't assholes to the degree that humans are. In the future, I hope to avoid dealing with humans altogether.
Awesome! Educational! Inspiring! Thanks!
An art indeed. Very few people are obsessed with experiment and create a meaningful recipe with the existing ingredients..
Though I know it's true from a logical sense, I don't like calling computers dumb but really a miraculous development.
I prefer to call computers just machines or tools. I wouldn't say that my hammer is dumb or my screwdriver is intelligent. The intelligence comes from how you use that tool.
@@MrNucleosome Agreed.
touché
I suppose this sentiment is mostly a refutation of what people out of the loop see a computer do. Without sufficient context about what's really happening anyone would claim the device to be 'magic' or intelligent to some degree.
@@crashmatrix well said
I can't tell you how much I wish I could afford to buy Knuth's books.
Informative and beautiful video to compare piano and computers.... data processing and compiling must be complex .and challenging involving those ASCII standards and logical gates and data base engineering
I've written in ASM, C, C++, Python, Common Lisp, Scheme, Racket, BASIC and LOGO.
I do it as a recreational activity. I find that I prefer the Lisp family and Python most for their expressiveness.
It is important to use the right tool for the job and stick with the tools that fit your hand best. Don't go chasing every new language and framework or you never learn any of them deeply.
For a good source for recreational programming I'd highly suggest Alexander Dewdney's books. They may be old but they are written in a language agnostic psuedocode so you can try all the recreations in your native programming language.
+PixelOutlaw Did'nt you try java..?And BASIC and LOGO are little old ya know...
+Uzumaki Saptarshi
I have used Java and C#. I don't care for them. They are too rooted in strongly typed systems and homogeneous containers.
I don't use BASIC (any variant) much and LOGO was just for a MIT book.
It is important to use a language that you like. Languages don't get outdated as long as you can get compiler or interpreter for them. Even so, you can always make your own implementation if the language spec is freely available.
Languages in the Lisp family allow you add new syntax to the language which is *very* uncommon and worth toying with. For example strict scheme lacks a while loop. You can actually define such a construct if you want it. Not many languages actually let you define new syntax without modifying a compiler.
Imagine that Java lacked a language feature. You could do nothing about it until it was written into the standard and implemented into an interpreter. This is why the Lisp family is known as the Programmable programming language". You get to define new parts at will.
+PixelOutlaw
I think that learning lots of languages could help sometimes,when I started coding I choosed Python to be my first programming language,but before learning C++ I couldn't really program like a real programmer,I wasn't using definition,classes etc because I,at first,thought that they wasn't really usefull,but after coding in C++ and other languages I learned how usefull they could be and how to use them effectively.
You can add your own syntax in almost every programming language,just use "define" (for C++,C# and Python) like:
define AddNumbers(x, y){
sum = x + y;
return sum;
}
Then in your main body you can just:
AddNumbers(5, 7);
cout
Elias Bouhout
can i do that thing in c? i mean u are using define to make a function not a macro so is it valid?
Uzumaki Saptarshi I'm not sure because I don't know C# really well and I have to finish learning it,but you can definitely do that in C++ and python.
Wow, i was trying to edit fortran today. So cool, archaic, yet powerful.
7:07 Bogo Sort: *"ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF"*
Imidiatly falls on face.
I’m a deer in the headlights on the subject but great to see people who love their work.
I’d love to learn more other than turning on my iPad and watching TH-cam but after watching this brief Stonemasonry looks so much easier in my head just my body hates it hahaha
Very interesting video, thx my friend
that high from making something that works. i crave it so much!!!!! the down when youre on the way though can be so frustrating lol!
everyone can do programming , but how useful you find it to be , it remmains for you
Thank you so very much for this and for your channel!!!!
Excellent documentary :)
I almost spit out my coffee when I heard "Fortran," for a minute I thought he said "4chan."
Top kek
Adrian V. Fuck off that's not even a kek
@Reflexez I'm gonna guess that it's generational, If someone says "4chan" in a conversation, I will hear "Fortran", LOL
All these legends in this video! 😯
Immediately after watching this video, i opened up Unity for the first time in a week.
Ivy1Musical unity? Trust me move to java or c++
@@chappie3642 Unity is great for making games, which is probably what he's doing with it.
Always is intense thinking but rewarding after solving the problem in simple way.
The solution is never simple though it always compiles to like 14,000 lines of machine code
So many great people
I don't know when did I choose programming, now I know, I did a great job
good, science of software using hardware to create code and number buildings, love it
Im C# developer ( Games and Apps ) ...Im really proud to be programmer 😍
not so often can we hear about what it really means to program. Thanks for this work, overall good.
Fantastic video! My wife would agree with me that this video blows away any classroom-based "education" people pay an arm and a leg for.
I never attended a College/ University, but my wife spent 10 years researching what Academia is about, at every type of campus: making a mountain out of a molehill.
what does that have to do with computer science or programming
@@ruben-xt8hm Everything. You can learn about Computer Science and Programming through self-study (e.g., videos such as this one and paper-based books), instead of paying an exorbitant amount of money for the same information at the Vatican's EHM's College/ University campuses. Academia never tells you the truth because all they care about is pumping people through the system as quickly as possible in order to pay off their Mortgages and MBSs while claiming "education".
[2 Timothy 3:7 (KJV) Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.]
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.......👍 I love those people, they do amazing work, and thank you for this video 👍
Love this analogy!
Reading code that makes me smile is a rare occurrence.
Excellent video
Visual effects in your videos are just awesome. What program do you use by the way?
I love coding in Z80 assembler. Been doing it almost 30 years.
What needs Z80 programs these days ?
@@SerBallister weather stations, security alarms, space probes, satnav, calculators, drum machines, synthesizers, washing machine control, robots, telescope star tracker, lift controller, oven temperature controller, dot matrix message display boards, personal computer running CPM, single board computers used in education, retro games console, ZX Spectrum clones, mobile phones, battery chargers, telecommunications, bar code scanner, factory automated production lines, electric typewriter, printers, fax machine, CNC machine, 3D printer.
Is it used for 8051 uC?
@@NickT6630 I'm suprised they are still in use.
@@SerBallister a search of the term "z80" will bring up loads of results, mostly computer enthusiasts keeping it alive but its been used in many applications over its lifetime.
0:40: That computer program listing scrolling in the background at 0:40 is the most beautifully typeset program listing I’ve ever seen; does anyone know what software is used to typeset/print source listings like that?
Great video.. deserves to be subscribe..
Good motivational video. I can’t imagine how many students are being deceived. I have been creating software for 30 years. There is as much truth here as in the video about working at an automobile plant and calling this work “poetry” just because modern cars often look beautiful. Work at the factory is not poetry. Do not confuse software for artists with art. Creating software is a 90-95% tedious routine; it's engineering, not art.
Proud to be a developer ❤. Any other developers here?
Whats your FB name
And describe your profile
Not pro but hopefully one day. I’m currently dabbling in AVR Assembler, which I LOVE! But I’d like to one day be fluent in C and C++.
More happy than proud.
Amazing !
This was so good. New sub!
Fantastic, Thank you.
Does anyone know what the music used in the video is? The piano pieces in particular.
great video for sure
Art, that it is. Me being a musician i have a knack for code, only been learning a year and building my own distributed computing server.
What about the software artists who practice a different form of art through software. Like digital music studio creators. Computers are so powerful. Amazing what the human mind can create.
Great quality I like it
This video made me happy.
What a great video! So inspirational. I see why I am studying CS without any passion for mathematics but I am forcing myself to understand. Thank you
I remember loving physics without having a passion for math. Once you see the math as being useful, the passion will occur. I sucked at math, and I made it all the way to college before I finally figured out that I didn't fully comprehend algebra.
@@AnotherGlenn Fuck matrices bro
@@AnotherGlenn so now
I love programming very much
Wow! Tnq so much sir
I loved software, but I completely felt in love with this amazing video
nice pfp cutie
That's a nice clip. It's a nice idea to make a comparison with music - everyone can imagine something with music and likes music. I
3 cheers for all we IT people !!
Wow such knowledge... Much power... I feel like a creator or a God after watching this vid... Amazing
Are ned me such impact
Plz .reply Now.. OR have to late not reply back..
"My first computer was in '57". Lol, make alll of us feel like NooBs why don't cha. Lol
I love ComputerHistory !!!
Love it!
Great info
Why is this video not 1 billion views yet??
Because it's the history of software, rather than the Art of Writing software as the title implies.
Beautiful
Excellent.
Great video!! I have a question I’m getting ready to self teach about programming. Before I take that leap is there anything anyone can suggest I learn or know or any other advice?? Thank you!!