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2015-08-25 008 Foreword
QUOTE: I think that it‘s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing...... What‘s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
My understanding: One of the most important things as a programmer is to keep passion. We always need to learn new things in this dynamic field, if we lose interest, the process will turn into a suffer. One big threat is, while we learn more and more about one certain domain, we tend to use the same tool to solve different problems, and subconsciously refuse to accept the idea that there are other ways to try and other interesting things deserve to learn. So the mindset that machine is always more capable than you thought can be a constant reminder, driving us to be more open and naturally keep our curiosity as child or layman.
QUOTE: To appreciate programming as an intellectual activity in its own right you must turn to computer programming; you must read and write computer programs—many of them. It doen‘t matter much what the programs are about or what applications they serve.
My understanding: The ability of programming on an abstract level can be improved as long as you are reading and writing good code, no matter how unique the problem domain is or how traditional the business is.
QUOTE: Thus even though our programs are carefully handcrafted discrete collections of symbols, mosaics of interlocking functions, they continually evolve: we change them as our perception of the model deepens, enlarges, generalizes until the model ultimately attains a metastable place within still another model with which we struggle.
My understanding: This remind me of the description in Code Complete: "Designing is a heuristic process." Building a complex model needs to try, to estimate, to retry, to destroy and to create. We may never reach the point of fully perfection, but we can reach the point of fulfillment and satisfaction.
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