{"id":2607,"date":"2018-02-15T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T06:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2018-02-15T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T11:44:16","slug":"programming-101-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/02\/programming-101-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming 101 (in the 21st century)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to write a computer program when you have no idea how to do it in a new language.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wrote a computer program this week at work. (oooops, I am supposed to write that I was developing because that is what the job recruiters call it nowadays.) This shouldn&#8217;t sound remarkable, but I&#8217;m not supposed to write computer programs AND I&#8217;m supposed to be so old that I forgot how to do that years ago&#8230;so let&#8217;s keep that part of the story quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, how do you write a computer program in the 21st century when you&#8217;ve never used the only language available to you? Simple, you Google it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s it. Go to Google and type something like, &#8220;powershell csv read write.&#8221; Try to read the answers shown (they were written in blurbs by programmers\u2014ooops slipped again, developers not programmers\u2014developers who had other things to develop), copy, paste, run, and that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>I guess having some background developing helps, but really. Just ask a question and copy the answer. The profession has devolved a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips How to write a computer program when you have no idea how to do it in a new language. I wrote a computer program this week at work. (oooops, I am supposed to write that I was developing because that is what the job recruiters call it nowadays.) This shouldn&#8217;t sound remarkable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}