Why software development should help you in life… and #politics?
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As software developers I consider we have the opportunity to interact practically with a large audience and build a know-how on complex systems. Maybe more than most people actually do, and this knowledge can be used in your daily life…What exactly is software development about ?First, I must confess that it is often hard to explain what software and software development is to people without prior knowledge. You can find a lot of definitions like “a collection of instructions that tell a computer how to work”, “the art of creating a program which can perform a required task” or “the collective processes involved in creating programs”. I think we need something more “practical”, so I would say that software programs are tools used by people to exchange and manipulate meaningful information, i.e. (...)
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