By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
Contributing Editor
May 1, 2010
I often hear people say, “Oh yes, I know how to program a computer”, when what they really mean is that they know how to invoke some esoteric feature of Excel or Word. As a software professional, I do not consider that sort of ability to be anything remotely like actually programming a computer.
But I have to admit that I lapsed into the same e...
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Contributing Editor
May 1, 2010
I often hear people say, “Oh yes, I know how to program a computer”, when what they really mean is that they know how to invoke some esoteric feature of Excel or Word. As a software professional, I do not consider that sort of ability to be anything remotely like actually programming a computer.
But I have to admit that I lapsed into the same e...
More...