20260415 - Should we learn Programming anymore...?
My first encounter with a computer was in middle school at one of my friend's house. It was almost a miracle to have a computer in I ndia in those times ( 19 80s). My friend's father was connected to IEEE and I am guessing the computer was importable through that connection. We only played games on it occassionally ( games of those days - Packman, F16, Nascar, Mario, Prince of Persia, etc.) I don't remember how much storage memory capacity it had . I think it had only 512KB of RAM and a 5¼" floppy disk drive (I think they came with a max 512KB of storage capacity). I vaguely remember once they had got Autocad and it came with 95 of those installation floppy disks! This was DOS O perating system - i.e., big CRT monitor screen s with green characters (think of the Matrix movie) Anyway, the first time I really interacted with a computer was in engineering, around 1993, I think. We had a subject called Fortran (Formula Translation) - whi...