Trzcianka, Poland

Programming and Database

Programowanie i bazy danych

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Programming and Database at AHE Trzcianka

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: computer science
University website: www.ahe.lodz.pl/trzcianka

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Database
A database is an organized collection of data. A relational database, more restrictively, is a collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views, and other elements. Database designers typically organize the data to model aspects of reality in a way that supports processes requiring information, such as (for example) modelling the availability of rooms in hotels in a way that supports finding a hotel with vacancies.
Programming
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)
Programming
[This] reminds me of a quotation from somebody that, whenever he tried to explain the logical structure of a programming language to a programmer, it was like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it feels like to be wet.
Saul Gorn, quoted by Julien Green in Microprogramming, Emulators and Programming languages, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 9, No. 3 (March 1966), pp. 230-232
Programming
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
Brian Kernighan, "Unix for Beginners" (1979)
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