He basically described what computational thinking is. I like that he said not to become a computer programmer and to take coding and apply it to your job. If I get good at coding, I'll figure out how to apply it to my kitchen cleaning job
Three years ago this was one of the Ted Talks that motivated me to learning programming. I was already learning programming, it just made me more passionate about it.
Sorry guys I might have disabled all kinds of notifications so I didn't get your questions. I got a job as a Front-End Developer at a small Software Development company. Since the company was small I had to do all kinds of Design related stuff from Design Logos + Branding to Wireframing and UI design in Photoshop/XD along with usual Front-End Coding. 2nd year on the Job I was essentially leading the Design Team. But Due to too much workload and very little salary and potential for growth I decided to quit the job and never to work in small companies. I am currently doing freelancing and now to get some stability, I have decided to master UX Design and get a job at a big company where they know how to keep theit employees happy. I'm sure my experience and knowledge of Graphic Design and Front-End Development will give me an edge as a UX Designer.
When some of my friends became addicted to videogames it seemed apparent to me that there are two sides to a computer; the people who made money from computers, and the people that spent money on computers, one way or another. I wanted to be one of the people that made money or profited in some way or other from my computer. So I taught myself beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code language. Basic was too slow for the graphics that I wanted to do on my Commodore 64 (8-bit) computer. So I typed in the assembler and went to work on learning 'machine' language. I remember feeling elated the day I found out I could print the letter A so fast it filled up the screen almost instantly. I can't say I've made money from computers since I've never really tried to. But I can't measure the amount of fun and confidence that I've gained throughout the years.
one of the best videos you can find on the internet. The way he delivered the Idea is fair enough to change a person's life. I watch this video everyday before I start learning my programming. I recommend you to do the same. Thanks a lot Chris for making our lives better with your 10 minutes of speech
@C. J Codeacademy is great but it is a $20 a month subscription but theres several other great free courses. Python seems to be the programming language most recommended for beginners
That was an inspiring and beautiful presentation. I was thinking about the same predicament but never realize how much we waste of computer power by being lazy users who refuse to learn programming because it is hard or because there is always someone else to do it for us. Well done Christian!
I’m a senior college student and just started to study programming. I’ll study with consistency of 2 hours a day for 6 months . Can’t wait to reach the magical point
Wow, what a wonderful and intriguing yet interactive talk I have ever seen! The milestone of this speech is, 'What NASA used the computer for calculations, we use it for gaming
I literally got into programming only last week, and I realised that if I learn C#, it could help me manipulate computers to make jobs easier. To think that we waste so much power on apps like flappy bird when we could be solving unimaginable problems. Plus, it would make me feel smarter and I would get to work with Unity. Bonus.
+Niceguy3210 , I think flappy bird isn't really a waste of time. It can serve as a parthway of a practice to see how to solve small programming tasks so that the next time you program you are a more experienced problem solver. It's just baby steps, not the amount of coding involved, but the process of coding.
he not wrong about programmers being lazy. I once spent 6 months writing a programming that will save me a two minutes everyday as well as to automate things because I could not be bothered to do it everyday
Talk about sex - get a million views in a year...talk about a topic that has the potential of changing a person life - get less than 200k views in 5 years. sigh...the world we live in. Great video, great presentation and plenty of food for thought.
January 2021, views count is just over 638k. super good video with a great message! its sad, censorship is here now.. how many people will ever see this now?
This was brilliant. And he's so right. I wonder how many things I could do with my computer to make my life easier if I just knew what could be done, and how to do it. I've already taken the first steps to learn to code!
Excellent video :)) I have been using Excel for a lot of things which has increased my productivity by a fold, with programmings skills it would be unimaginable. Time to research a programming language.
"If you have a difficult task to do, give it to a lazy man, he will find an easier way to do it" -------- I wish Mr. Henry Ford was alive at this time.
Programming is great! Imagine all your ideas that you had and couldn't do. With programming you will no longer have this problem. At the beginning I also thought that Its too hard to program and everything, but when I found some great tutorials I saw how actually easy it is! I learned a lot in just one week,
There are lots of great tutorials out there. I learned apple's swift in youtube, but also I learned little in iTunes U. And codacademy.com is great to start programming in html and python.
I learnt python and work with GIS systems. A simple language, but I see opportunities almost everywhere to automate every admin job i have ever seen. Coding can not however replace management or roles that require human interaction and soft skills...............yet.
8:50 that is true, I made a program in 2h to process a bunch of data, it took ~80ms for my desktop to do it, doing it by hand would have taken me 7days+
2:30 books: it is proven that retention is higher when reading a book than scrolling through pages because the information is related in our brain to the physical location.
I spent 3 months attempting to learn Python, and the farthest I got was text games using random variables like : a carnival game, a 3 card (ace, 2, 3) blackjack game vs. computer, a text game with games within it, and about 10 games total, and then I hit a wall and didn't know what else to try to program, and especially how to use TKinter for graphics and sound ... but it was very fun as I was learning and playing at it.
+Randy Fleming I wouldn´t recommend Tkinter for game design, try using pygame for that. (Tkinter is great for general GUI though) For ideas: Try to write a program about something which interests you. (It doesn´t even need to be useful) I for example made one which can calculate prime numbers, and one which encodes text.
i would go for more practical applications. i am currently revisiting html and css so i can build a website that is essentially a database like yelp, but better and smarter.
*_-TheOlian04-_* kinda! I’ve got some experience with C, MATLAB, and Visual Basic now since I ended up majoring in Applied Mathematics in college. Currently a senior so I’m almost done 👀
omg!! I felt completely related at min 8:38 , I'm trying to learn python, there are several things on my everyday work that I'd like to program, but seems that it's not easy, but I won't hesitate, Ill do it!
i write macros so i can code faster. anyone else hate having to type in symbols as part of the syntax... especially html... holy openers and closers are a pain
@@stephenfisher9140 Python is an introductory language. It can do everything you want it to do, and it's easy to do it. But it's not as fast as something like C#.
+Harvey Dent Then take writing lessons or even simpler, google "writing tips"(answers on Quora.com are especially informative). The way writers use their imagination and their mental tools to the maximum is the same as any other professional/hobbyist. The importance of concentration, writing down ideas, being consistent(e.g. 20 minutes of coding EVERY day), reserving time to be creative, taking notes and so on, is the same in all things that require creativity, persistence and/or inspiration. Having a bit of a routine is not bad for you, as long as you have some motivation you will find a way to get better at it. Also, motivation is like a fire, it doesn't burn forever, you need to add fuel every now and then.
YOU sir, are clueless. You cannot teach, or learn, the mentality required, you either have it or you don't. You can learn a language, but that doesn't make you programmer. And your thoughts about learning "creativity" are laughable. Programming is about problem solving, there is a little "creativity" involved (some, but not a lot). It is a complete mentality that makes a tech geek (what comprises 99% of the EFFECTIVE IT & IS professionals), and you either have it, or you don't. If you need to "learn creativity or problem solving", you DO NOT HAVE IT, nor will you ever have it. You might be able to teach yourself to pretend, maybe even enough to fool others like you, but you will quickly be ejected from the field by the rest of us, who won't even be fooled long enough to complete your interview.
Gerff I'd say the only truth you can find in your overly dramatic(and cringeworthy, to me) comment is that some people are stupid and there is nothing they can do about it. But they can still be good programmers, or whatever they want for that matter, if they memorize enough knowledge to the point where they don't need to think, they just mindlessly apply a formula. Yes it takes them a lot of time and yes they will never come close to being as good at whatever "it" is as someone who's not dumb, but they can still do it sufficiently enough to earn a living and sometimes, with enough luck, get filthy rich.
The solution is simple: work for the government. In a former state job, I used existing GPS hardware to do myself in a day what 3 guys were taking a week to do. And if I had worked on it, I could have automated it further. I was "asked to resign", and my system wasn't used after I left.
What are the best tips to get out, overcome the frustration you feel when everything seems correct in your code, but it doesn’t do what you want it to do?
take a break, debug the code step by step, see if all your variables match up to the expected value, and if that doesn't work, get some community help stackoverflow.com/ :)
+Zapy Read through your code or print out stuff at different lines such as print("Entering loop"); and if it doesnt get to the loop, you know the error occurs before it
I love the way this guy did the correlations to the then and now! People direction traffic! hahaha. Bring yourself into the future and learn some full-stack node.js the one all the cool kids are learning and using.
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“1400 why should I learn how to read “
“2028 why should I learn how to program “
This’s the most convincing for the reason to learn programming ever !
👏😃😉😍😍😍🤗👏👏🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🙌
How did 2012 turn into 2028
Wow
@@kiwid this must be 2100
all futuristic cyber security and those technologies in 2030 covinced me to learn proggrammimg after i played the sigma theory pc game lol
That's exactly what I wanted from a TED talk - short, informative, motivating and fun, this guy just did it perfectly.
Go marry him
omg why did he only have 10 minutes lol Id have listened to him for an hour or more
i would also . :D
Well he said everything we needed in 10 mins, which others would have in hours.
Ivaylo Borov he is a lazy man.
I think this is the best TedTalk I have ever seen!
Very engaging speaker
So,
Why you should learn to program?
1) Programming makes you smarter. 4:47
2) Computers grow faster than you. 6:44
3) You're lazy. 8:03
He basically described what computational thinking is. I like that he said not to become a computer programmer and to take coding and apply it to your job. If I get good at coding, I'll figure out how to apply it to my kitchen cleaning job
Three years ago this was one of the Ted Talks that motivated me to learning programming. I was already learning programming, it just made me more passionate about it.
Exactly
How good are you now?
Hey, hows life now?
HOW IS LIFE NOW
Sorry guys I might have disabled all kinds of notifications so I didn't get your questions. I got a job as a Front-End Developer at a small Software Development company. Since the company was small I had to do all kinds of Design related stuff from Design Logos + Branding to Wireframing and UI design in Photoshop/XD along with usual Front-End Coding. 2nd year on the Job I was essentially leading the Design Team. But Due to too much workload and very little salary and potential for growth I decided to quit the job and never to work in small companies. I am currently doing freelancing and now to get some stability, I have decided to master UX Design and get a job at a big company where they know how to keep theit employees happy. I'm sure my experience and knowledge of Graphic Design and Front-End Development will give me an edge as a UX Designer.
I shall automate programming
+Socialitious Programception
Why? So you can take credit for his work? ... Juz kidding. :D :P
We call some of those cases AI
Lmao
AI will replace programmer in future
He speaks REALLY well. Damn. I guess I'll go ahead and take that public speaking class.
+CaressasPassion You are beautiful!
Deadalus DX Thank you!!!!
+CaressasPassion and your voice is beautiful xD
The Gameplay TV Awwwwwww THANK YOU!
+Deadalus DX
savage !!! hahhaahahahha you made my day xD
just saw this in 2019 and i think it's more relevant than ever. lovely talk
You're right we should've started learning coding earlier..
When some of my friends became addicted to videogames it seemed apparent to me that there are two sides to a computer; the people who made money from computers, and the people that spent money on computers, one way or another. I wanted to be one of the people that made money or profited in some way or other from my computer. So I taught myself beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code language. Basic was too slow for the graphics that I wanted to do on my Commodore 64 (8-bit) computer. So I typed in the assembler and went to work on learning 'machine' language.
I remember feeling elated the day I found out I could print the letter A so fast it filled up the screen almost instantly.
I can't say I've made money from computers since I've never really tried to. But I can't measure the amount of fun and confidence that I've gained throughout the years.
You are awesome and I loved this comment
one of the best videos you can find on the internet. The way he delivered the Idea is fair enough to change a person's life. I watch this video everyday before I start learning my programming. I recommend you to do the same. Thanks a lot Chris for making our lives better with your 10 minutes of speech
Oh hey what a nice thing to say! I'm so happy to have helped you on your programming journey.
I just started learning and i find it addictive. It’s so much fun
@C. J Codeacademy is great but it is a $20 a month subscription but theres several other great free courses. Python seems to be the programming language most recommended for beginners
That was an inspiring and beautiful presentation. I was thinking about the same predicament but never realize how much we waste of computer power by being lazy users who refuse to learn programming because it is hard or because there is always someone else to do it for us.
Well done Christian!
You said pretty much everything of what I wanted to say
In fact, its not even that "hard" when you get the point about programming
I feel like it's a sin if I wont learn programming in my lifetime being in this generation so thank you for selling me into this Christian!
You're welcome :D
"Programming makes you smarter." You can easily see how smart he is
Programming and writing are both mental exercises. If you noticed, programming is pretty much writing.
So far this is the most Powerful Keynote in just 10 and 25s Ever i have been heard on whole entire Life
I’m a senior college student and just started to study programming. I’ll study with consistency of 2 hours a day for 6 months . Can’t wait to reach the magical point
Did you?
Did you?
Thanks, this helped motivate me to study the world of computer science!
How'd it turn out? You coding? You look like a programmer, lol.
wssup
Wow already six years! You must be a programmer now
Wow, I looked at your playlists and there were some recent videos, which meant you're still coding. Great job man!
2012 : you still smarter than computer but for how much longer ?!
2020: now it's the time
Wow, what a wonderful and intriguing yet interactive talk I have ever seen! The milestone of this speech is, 'What NASA used the computer for calculations, we use it for gaming
I literally got into programming only last week, and I realised that if I learn C#, it could help me manipulate computers to make jobs easier. To think that we waste so much power on apps like flappy bird when we could be solving unimaginable problems. Plus, it would make me feel smarter and I would get to work with Unity. Bonus.
+Niceguy3210 , I think flappy bird isn't really a waste of time. It can serve as a parthway of a practice to see how to solve small programming tasks so that the next time you program you are a more experienced problem solver. It's just baby steps, not the amount of coding involved, but the process of coding.
he not wrong about programmers being lazy. I once spent 6 months writing a programming that will save me a two minutes everyday as well as to automate things because I could not be bothered to do it everyday
@@frightone
How far have you got?
I want him to teach me programming languages.
I want him to speak to me during hours 😎
This is why I'm learning to code. Great video and thank you for more motivation. I'm definitely seeing the magic.
Talk about sex - get a million views in a year...talk about a topic that has the potential of changing a person life - get less than 200k views in 5 years. sigh...the world we live in. Great video, great presentation and plenty of food for thought.
Touche
534k views in 8 years now..
@@sherryYYC 542k views uptil 31 jan 2020
January 2021, views count is just over 638k. super good video with a great message! its sad, censorship is here now.. how many people will ever see this now?
Such a mishap! I think people should've rethought their priorities.
Super talk! Fun and engaging, and makes an otherwise boring topic come to life. See you on the Forbes list...
This was brilliant. And he's so right. I wonder how many things I could do with my computer to make my life easier if I just knew what could be done, and how to do it. I've already taken the first steps to learn to code!
Mind if you fill me in on how to start coding!
this got me so hyped for programming, thanks dude
I like at 3:39 “I should learn to program” and when he giggles, he wasn’t expecting that everyone would repeat with him. 😄 awesome video btw
one of the best videos on youtube on the topic of 'why to become a programmer'
I think this is the first Ted Talk to actually change my life.
Excellent video :))
I have been using Excel for a lot of things which has increased my productivity by a fold, with programmings skills it would be unimaginable.
Time to research a programming language.
How do you do?
Now this is what gives me motivation and inspiration to becoming a programmer!
"If you have a difficult task to do, give it to a lazy man, he will find an easier way to do it" -------- I wish Mr. Henry Ford was alive at this time.
That last quote is basically how everything works now a days
Mark the time.
We need more enthusiasts like him !!
one of the best Ted talks i've ever watched
Programming is great! Imagine all your ideas that you had and couldn't do. With programming you will no longer have this problem. At the beginning I also thought that Its too hard to program and everything, but when I found some great tutorials I saw how actually easy it is! I learned a lot in just one week,
There are lots of great tutorials out there. I learned apple's swift in youtube, but also I learned little in iTunes U. And codacademy.com is great to start programming in html and python.
how old where u when you learnt to code?
and how long did it take?
this whole session doesn't make me bored at all
2:51 IS THAT A TOM THUM REFERENCE!!???! LOVE THIS!!!
"Focusing on coding inflates the importance of finding the “right” method to solve a problem rather than the importance of understanding the problem."
Congratulation!! He is inspiring for a decade, Commenting in 2020 :)
An excellent talk and thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely
JF ( UK )
Where did my 10 minutes go? Was that 1.20? I was so confused when I quitted full screen and looked at the length.
shared this video on twitter with learn to code caption, I was suspended for 12hrs wtf.
This video was pretty interesting considering I had to watch it for my coding class. I can't wait for AP Programming next year^^
How did it go????
Great Public Speaker. Thanks for the motivation.
I learnt python and work with GIS systems. A simple language, but I see opportunities almost everywhere to automate every admin job i have ever seen. Coding can not however replace management or roles that require human interaction and soft skills...............yet.
what a fun and awesome talk.
Great job, Chris!
2020 and this is still a very very relevant message
Inspiring! Literally impressive. All or nothin ! DREAMS WILL COME TRUE.
Dude just inspired me to learn a program...Genco u rock.
how's it going?
this is THE best TED video
A motivational speech, and soon I'll start learning to program!!!
watching this in 2020, before choosing which programming language I should learn first. Great content!
Yeah!... I love programming :)
It's a mix of creativity, art and technology...
The future is here!
8:50 that is true, I made a program in 2h to process a bunch of data, it took ~80ms for my desktop to do it, doing it by hand would have taken me 7days+
In my top 10 Ted talks
2:30 books: it is proven that retention is higher when reading a book than scrolling through pages because the information is related in our brain to the physical location.
I spent 3 months attempting to learn Python, and the farthest I got was text games using random variables like : a carnival game, a 3 card (ace, 2, 3) blackjack game vs. computer, a text game with games within it, and about 10 games total, and then I hit a wall and didn't know what else to try to program, and especially how to use TKinter for graphics and sound ... but it was very fun as I was learning and playing at it.
+Randy Fleming I wouldn´t recommend Tkinter for game design, try using pygame for that. (Tkinter is great for general GUI though)
For ideas: Try to write a program about something which interests you. (It doesn´t even need to be useful) I for example made one which can calculate prime numbers, and one which encodes text.
i would go for more practical applications. i am currently revisiting html and css so i can build a website that is essentially a database like yelp, but better and smarter.
any updates? what are you doing now ?
Thanks for motivation
One of the most amazing things about this is that the Raspberry Pi now has a 10$ and a 5$ version too!
Beautiful, well described.👌👏
My brother in law is related to this guy. Props to what he does; I might start programming myself! :D
damnn nice!
Did you? 5 years later. Did you learn programming?
*_-TheOlian04-_* kinda! I’ve got some experience with C, MATLAB, and Visual Basic now since I ended up majoring in Applied Mathematics in college. Currently a senior so I’m almost done 👀
I really enjoyed this presentation. so much fun.
Great talk. 😶🌫️👏🏾👏🏾
Seeing this in 2020 is still amazing me i wonder what audience have felt at that time
2:21 Good ol' Blockbuster and Cockthruster
The was the first ted talk that i actually liked.
wow, i didn't realise time is passing until the audiences clapped and he said thank you
Point 3 and the quote are really really true.
Mark the time.
Great motivational speaker and a great talk.
omg!! I felt completely related at min 8:38 , I'm trying to learn python, there are several things on my everyday work that I'd like to program, but seems that it's not easy, but I won't hesitate, Ill do it!
Great Ted talk! I enjoyed this beautiful content thanks!
I spent weeks trying to implement a simple program. While everyone else moved on, I was still stuck trying to comprehend the concept
You should've found better motivation or a teacher. I hope you've figured it out.
Fire presentation
i write macros so i can code faster. anyone else hate having to type in symbols as part of the syntax... especially html... holy openers and closers are a pain
thats the benifit of python, no openers or closer, not even semi colons
@@stephenfisher9140 Python is an introductory language. It can do everything you want it to do, and it's easy to do it. But it's not as fast as something like C#.
I'm not to stupid to code , I'm just too stupid to know what to do with it .
+Harvey Dent Then take writing lessons or even simpler, google "writing tips"(answers on Quora.com are especially informative). The way writers use their imagination and their mental tools to the maximum is the same as any other professional/hobbyist.
The importance of concentration, writing down ideas, being consistent(e.g. 20 minutes of coding EVERY day), reserving time to be creative, taking notes and so on, is the same in all things that require creativity, persistence and/or inspiration. Having a bit of a routine is not bad for you, as long as you have some motivation you will find a way to get better at it. Also, motivation is like a fire, it doesn't burn forever, you need to add fuel every now and then.
YOU sir, are clueless. You cannot teach, or learn, the mentality required, you either have it or you don't. You can learn a language, but that doesn't make you programmer. And your thoughts about learning "creativity" are laughable. Programming is about problem solving, there is a little "creativity" involved (some, but not a lot). It is a complete mentality that makes a tech geek (what comprises 99% of the EFFECTIVE IT & IS professionals), and you either have it, or you don't. If you need to "learn creativity or problem solving", you DO NOT HAVE IT, nor will you ever have it. You might be able to teach yourself to pretend, maybe even enough to fool others like you, but you will quickly be ejected from the field by the rest of us, who won't even be fooled long enough to complete your interview.
Gerff The caps and the way you say dumb things with such arrogance make the fact that you're trolling/imitating some idiot you've heard, too obvious.
Tasos Kozi
Are you sure? There is a bit of truth to it.
Gerff I'd say the only truth you can find in your overly dramatic(and cringeworthy, to me) comment is that some people are stupid and there is nothing they can do about it.
But they can still be good programmers, or whatever they want for that matter, if they memorize enough knowledge to the point where they don't need to think, they just mindlessly apply a formula. Yes it takes them a lot of time and yes they will never come close to being as good at whatever "it" is as someone who's not dumb, but they can still do it sufficiently enough to earn a living and sometimes, with enough luck, get filthy rich.
This guy is an excellent speaker
What an inspiration !
Thx!😊
codecademy.com is a start!
The solution is simple: work for the government. In a former state job, I used existing GPS hardware to do myself in a day what 3 guys were taking a week to do. And if I had worked on it, I could have automated it further. I was "asked to resign", and my system wasn't used after I left.
This was fun. Thanks!
2:36 I think 2020 has made a case that we should still be in a class room lol
What are the best tips to get out, overcome the frustration you feel when everything seems correct in your code, but it doesn’t do what you want it to do?
take a break, debug the code step by step, see if all your variables match up to the expected value, and if that doesn't work, get some community help stackoverflow.com/ :)
+Zapy Read through your code or print out stuff at different lines such as print("Entering loop"); and if it doesnt get to the loop, you know the error occurs before it
The best part of this talk was the appearance of Clipy , I haven't seen him in years.
I love the way this guy did the correlations to the then and now! People direction traffic! hahaha.
Bring yourself into the future and learn some full-stack node.js the one all the cool kids are learning and using.
Very engaging. Great Ted Talk!
thanks m8...that was an awesome inspiration
very good!
*And what are you using it to do?*
I loved your presentation!
Yeah computers are faster than us but what we can do, computers have still long way to do! That's why the world needs programmers to solve this issue.
With how fast AI is developing we might have reached that 2025 milestone
1961 was the year when Yuriy Gagarin reached space and the first moon landing was in 1969;)))
I cannot find that Henry Ford quote anywhere?
Thanks
Literally the greatest Ted Talk I've ever witnessed lol
thank you for video😁