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 .p30 [[ https://pyladies.com/ | PyLadies ]]
 .p36 [[ https://roguelynn.com/about/ | Lynn Root ]] painting charity-auctioned for $16, $32, $64 ... $512 ... $1410!
 .p38 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra | Edsger Dijkstra ]] [[ https://archive.org/details/selectedwritings0000dijk | Selected Writings on Computing ]]
 .p59 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole | George Boole ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laws_of_Thought | The Laws of Thought ]]
 .p59 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) | Great Hunger ]] 1845-1852
  . homeless in the streets while academics and church elders dined luxuriously
 .p67 Post-Brexit Überschwemmung (flooding, presumably of coders from England to the continent)
 .p68 Anti-immigration riots in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Chemnitz_protests | Chemnitz ]] 2018
 .p68 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach | 2018 Google data breach ]] private data of 500,000 uw34w
 .p70 [[ https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ST/people/professor.php | Dr. Janet Siegmund ]] learning coder brain scans
 .p70 programming education [[ https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40594-020-00222-7 | high drop out rate]] (50% is "astronomical?" Higher for Medicine, Engineering, Architecture, Law, and Accounting)
 .p72 [[ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37565521200 | André Brechmann ]] Combinatorial NeuroImaging, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg
 .p73 Java -> Python [[ https://peitek.com/ | Norman Peitek ]]
 .p73 [[ https://arthotel-magdeburg.de/ | artHOTEL Magdeburg ]]
 .p75 axon transmission rate 50% ??
 .p78 computer code comprehension activates brain areas for working memory, problem-solving, and language processing, left hemisphere for most right-handers
  . same areas for natural language and general analytical processing
  . no left hemisphere for mathematical thinking
 .p78 Dijkstra "An exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset for a competent programmer."
 .p79 "...some computer science students are hardly able to talk, to form whole sentences when they come to us/"
 .p79 "... you can't train them. All you can do is find them and let them loose"
 .p80 [[ https://dl.acm.org/profile/81498658492 | Scott Portnoff ]] [[ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3152433 ]]
 .p81 "Homework ... was to memorize the assigned program ... to write it out perfectly."
 .p81 "... this is how we acquire language"
 .p82 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg Gerald Weinberg ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/39640074 | The psychology of computer programming ]]
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The Devil in the Stack

Andrew Smith . August 2024 . Beaverton Lib. 005.1 SMI

Andrew Smith 1961

My first glance at this book was off-putting - I somehow got the idea that the author thought perjoratively about programmers and technologists. The book is actually a journalist making a deep and sincere dive into software, the communities of people who create and maintain it, and how they think about it.

DevilStack (last edited 2025-03-22 09:50:56 by KeithLofstrom)