Great programmers don't just happen !
“We need more coders”, “Everybody needs to learn to code”, “Coding should be a basic requirement in education”, …. Have you heard or read comments similar to these ? What does this have to do with classic Visual Basic ? BASIC and the hobby programmer Why won’t BASIC just die and go away ? Probably most programmers today think this,
Read moreI saw an interesting reference on the web calling the WIN32 API, the Assembler language of Windows. While not quite true technically (since a true assembler is even lower level than something like the Windows API), it is a valid description of the WIN32 compared to other GUI frameworks, such as dot.net. The benefit of assembler Back in the day when
Read moreAs a long time WIN32 programmer, I find it strange that Intel’s SOC (aka. ATOM System On a Chip) chips are not succeeding as well as I had hoped. The ATOM series has continued to improve by leaps and bounds, but there is a bottleneck somewhere which has prevented them from being used more extensively in IOT and Mobile devices.
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