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Discussion on: How to Make Programming More Exciting and More Fun

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Ghost

I've said it before, coding is pretty much magic, you write some spells and if they are right, something happen, sometimes around the world, sometimes you make some robot move or some distant gizmo to tell you stuff about where it is; you can be a wizard and control your environment with your code, a necromancer rising hundreds of un-living robots, a warlock invoking some ML to solve mysteries mere humans don't understand, or.. you know... sell some spells to make some money :]

and besides, the technical prowess of modern computers, the fact that the transistor gates nowadays are in nm, that we are about to hit quantum effects in the transistors when a few decades ago a tube was 10cm long, that this post was written in some small country in the other side of the planet and almost instantly all of you can read it (maybe you don't want, but you can!), and to make all those wonders you just need a 100USD device (hopefully a larger one), you can get a Raspberry Pi for almost nothing, Arduinos for even less and the controllers for even less!. And no, I won't mention smartphones, I hate them, those are evil. But the rest, is amazing. Satellites!, cmon, we have satellites!, GPS needs to take into account relativistic effects!, awesome, absolutely awesome.

We are living in the age of the nerd, and is awesome.

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Gaël Thomas

Well, if that's not a message of love for IT, I don't know what to say!
We live in the best of all times to create new things and participate in our future.