It's Late at Night Before I Dare to Tell You These 3.8 Little Secrets About Programmers

When the word "Computer" first appeared, it did not mean computer.

The New York Times on May 2, 1892 contained a job advertisement that read:

Hiring Computer, female, subjects required for examination include: algebra, geometry, trigonometry and astronomy.

This was a recruitment request from Harvard University astronomer Pickering.Computer refers specifically to people who do complex mathematical calculations.

Most of the people who do this kind of work are women, because women are more focused and careful.

He recruited some deaf-mute women, whose specific job was to measure and classify the photographic negatives taken by the observatory. In fact, they were doing the work of today's computers by manual calculation, so they were also called Harvard computers.

Of course, strictly speaking, they are not programmers, but people who do mechanical, repetitive but also important computing work.But until the 1960s, even as technology changed and advanced, computers were considered a job exclusive to women, while hardware-related work was mainly done by men.

In 1967, Cosmopolitan magazine published an article titled "The Computer Girls".The main point expressed is that it is natural and very advantageous for women to work in computer programming.

Mentioned “Now that the big, shiny computers have arrived, along with them comes a new profession for women: programming.”

The first bug in computer history was discovered by the famous programmer Grace Hopper.

Bug means bug in English because the first Bug was really a physical bug. In 1947, Grace Hopper worked in a laboratory at Harvard and was one of the first programmers of Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest computers.

At that time, MARK1 contained more than three thousand relays, more than two thousand storage counters and tens of thousands of wiring terminals.

During a malfunction, Grace found that a moth had flown into a relay, causing the entire computer to stop working. She carefully removed the moth with tweezers and put it on the label in the notebook. "First actual case of bug being found".

When Grace was programming the Mark series of computers, she already felt the fear of being dominated by machine language.

That's why she wanted to design a program that would allow people to program directly in a language that humans can understand, and then the program would translate the language into machine code and execute it on a computer. This is what we now call the principle of a compiler. In addition, this famous female brigadier general of the U.S. Navy was also the designer of the COBOL language.

Therefore, there are quite a few programmers among test engineers because they have strong Debug racial talents.

War has always been an important opportunity to promote the development of scientific research. Whether it is radio, aerospace technology or various weapons, they all rely on the abundant scientific research investment of various countries during the war.

During World War II, the U.S. Army, lacking mathematicians to calculate ballistic launch trajectories, launched a top-secret project at Pennsylvania State University. Operation Aberdeen Proving Ground.

The action was to recruit women to calculate ballistic trajectories. Their specific job was to calculate large amounts of data so that soldiers could aim at targets and help scientists develop atomic bombs., hundreds of women participated in this operation.

After the end of World War II, these outstanding female programmers continued to write a large number of programs for the world's first computer ENIAC.

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After reading these secrets about programmers, we hope that all men can do the following with an attitude of admiration but not losing liveliness, seriousness but not losing kindness:

– Offer to help programmers review code and pair programming;

– Actively remind programmers to pay attention to the common cold in spring and drink more hot water;

– Forward this article to fellow programmers and leave a comment:I knew you were so good because of your talent, not because of extra effort;

- Hold up the delicate hands of the programmers and praise them: Only these hands can write such high-quality code!

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