Poznań, Poland

Python Programming Academy

Akademia Programowania w Pythonie

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⇑Python Programming Academy at CDV

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: computer science

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University website: www.cdv.pl/en

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Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The term academia refers to the worldwide human group composed of professors and researchers at institutes of higher learning.

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Programming

Playing with pointers is like playing with fire. Fire is perhaps the most important tool known to man. Carefully used, fire brings enormous benefits; but when fire gets out of control, disaster strikes.

John Barnes, Programming in Ada 2012, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 189

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Programming

If you lie to the computer, it will get you.

Perry Farrar (1985) attributed to Farrar in John Bentley (1985) "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science". In: Communications of the ACM, Vol 28. Nr.9, p. 899

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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

RADM Grace Hopper, on the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark I experimental computer at Harvard in August 1945, as quoted in Time (16 April 1984)

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