Game programmer

Taves begins his article by outlining some of the benefits of a job in computer programming, including large bonuses reaching upwards of $200,000 and complimentary vacations. However, he immediately follows by claiming that while being a computer programmer is nice, it is especially nice for guys. Taves then introduces a study performed by Glassdoor, a popular job recruiting site. According to the study, which…

knack for using them so I really began to focus on it. I worked super hard in my Computer Studies classes and did moderately well in them. As most regular kids, I always went straight for the games whenever I got the chance often wrecking the keyboards in the process. Then I decided I was going to be a video game…

What is software piracy? According to Linfo, software piracy is a term that is used to describe the copying or use of computer software in violation of its license. Copying, downloading, and sharing software onto other computers are ways that software piracy occurs. Software piracy causes a big loss in revenue to the publisher or creator of the software. This causes the software to be pricier to the consumers. “Software piracy is all but impossible to stop” (Webopedia). Companies, publishers,…

adheres will indicate an increased understanding. Fowler (2008) states that there is a direct correlation between the readability of the code and the quality of the developer. He states: “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand” (p. 15). Scalabrino (2016) also mimics a similar sentiment, saying “’readable code’ is a fundamental and highly desirable property of source code” (p. 1). These two authors, among others, show the…

Change is inevitable. It is no secret that advancements in time and ideas are destined to change the status quo, but the foresight to analyze the gray area where change occurs is often times unknown because change does not come easy. From the world’s most renowned scholars in ancient Greece detesting the shift from oral-based rhetoric to writing, to influential elites hindering the printing press from breaking long-standing institutions, these examples parallel the modern case of writing…

I grew up in a rural area. Since childhood, I enjoyed the electronic devices and the portable game machines, but I never owned one. When I went to college and study computer science, I still hadn’t had a computer because its price still too high for my family income. That was a hard time. With the development of technologies, computers are cheaper…

Rhetorical Analysis: How to be a “Woman Programmer” The computer programmer, Ellen Ullman writes about her experience as a woman in a dominantly male profession in her essay, How to be a “Woman Programmer” that was published in the op-ed column in the New York Times in 2013. Ullman is the author of the novels By Blood (2013) and The Bug (2003). She has also published a memoir entitled, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents (2001). In this memoir, she recounts her experiences in…

As from the previous case study, each friend decided to purchase a laptop for themselves. In which they will be using Wi-Fi network from home, school and when they are working from restaurants that have free Wi-Fi hot spots. Each network might seem a reliable and secure way to navigate the internet, but at times there can be a risk from a malicious website where a person’s identity can be stolen. The intruder can access someone’s device from many things such as downloading a file from the wrong…

A Critical Review of Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers In the article “Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers”, the author Ian Bogost (2015), who is a critic and researcher, suggests that ‘software engineers’ should be called ‘software programmers’ rather than ‘engineers’, because software engineers are not responsible for long-term social safety and public construction, but focusing on rapid software development in commercial application, while traditional civic…

Hacking A Computer Systems A movie “Algorithm: The Hacker Movie,” illustrates a view of a hacker life and what he or she does because he or she doesn’t care about the privacy and laws. According to the movie, it shows that “The hackers live by one rule: information should be free and everything can be simplified and coded and understood as information” (Documentary Storm). By the statement, we can assume that, the hackers don’t live socially like other people do. They may not go for dates or…