4 August 2015

Computer Code Is The New International Language! Back

04 August 2015
All of today’s kids will need—along with reading, writing, and arithmetic—a basic understanding of computation and the role that it plays across a wide range of disciplines. Coding is engaging and empowering. It’s a necessary 21st Century skill ~ Jan Cuny

More and more countries as well as industries are relying heavily on computers and computer programming for not only their future growth but also their current daily operations. Every day we are moving closer to a paperless society and depending more and more on the internet for many of our day to day needs. What this means is that writing, reading and speaking code is becoming more and more essential if countries and individuals are to stay competitive in today’s high-tech economy. Today you can consult with a Lawyer or Accountant in any country around the world and have your tablet or smart phone translate the communication for you in real time. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Chinese tops the list of most popular world languages, with over one billion speakers. English trails in third place, with 335 million speakers. This data represents first-language speakers. In computing, source code is any collection of computer instructions (possibly with comments) written using some human-readable computer language, usually as text.

The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source code. The source code is often transformed by a compiler program into low-level machine code understood by the computer. The machine code might then be stored for execution at a later time. Alternatively, an interpreter can be used to analyze and perform the outcomes of the source code program directly on the fly.

Software, and its accompanying source code, typically falls within one of two licensing paradigms: open source and proprietary software. A program’s source code can be written in different programming languages for example HTML or HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup language used to create web pages. Web browsers can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web pages. HTML describes the structure of a website semantically along with cues for presentation, making it a markup language, rather than a programming language.

The way a program is written can have important consequences for its maintainers. Coding conventions, which stress readability and some language-specific conventions, are aimed at the maintenance of the software source code, which involves debugging and updating. Other priorities, such as the speed of the program’s execution, or the ability to compile the program for multiple architectures, often make code readability a less important consideration, since code quality generally depends on its purpose.

One of the first court cases regarding the nature of source code as free speech involved University of California mathematics professor Dan Bernstein, who had published on the Internet the source code for an encryption program that he created. At the time, encryption algorithms were classified as munitions by the United States government; exporting encryption to other countries was considered an issue of national security, and had to be approved by the State Department. The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U.S. government on Bernstein’s behalf; the court ruled that source code was free speech, protected by the First Amendment.

Source: Wikipedia

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Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

An understanding of computer science is becoming increasingly essential in today’s world. Our national competitiveness depends upon our ability to educate our children—and that includes our girls—in this critical field.

Anne Wojcicki
CEO and Founder, 23andMe

All students should have the opportunity to learn how to program. Computer science is the basis for modern day creativity and expression. The computer programmers of tomorrow will revolutionize medicine.

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines. There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”~Bill Gates

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