Programming and life

A window is opened up at the crack of dawn, beside which one man is overlooking the the mess of buildings outside, breathing the fresh air cosily. But just after a little while, he steps to his seat, staring at the computer screen till the night. This man is very likely a programmer.

There is a man who concentrates on his computer, but doesn’t care about however he dresses, or even whether he washes his face.

There is a man who has a good knowledge of computer language, but has a low EQ and makes a bad relationship with others.

There is a man who stays at home and does his own work by himself day and night, but just has few friends.

These images shown above probably are what people think of programmers as, in fact, programmers indeed give us a bad impression sometimes. However, people just have a partial understanding of programmers’ life, not to mention that they can know the fun of programming. There is no doubt that programs affect all aspects of our lives in an obvious or potential way, especially they are reflected in electronic products that we use nowadays.

When you are so proud of possessing an iphone, you’d better remember that it is the program that makes you get confidence to show off the advanced mobile phones thoroughly.

When you take advantage of computers to cope with problems in life, you’d better remember that it is the program that makes you seek the convenience of computer.

When you needn’t worry about hot summer and cold winter owing to an air-conditioner, you’d better remember that it is the program that makes you share the machine’s intelligent.

When you release your pressure by playing varies of online games, you’d better remember that it is the program that makes you enjoy the great entertainment in life.

As people’s thoughts control their bodies, computer programs play a leading role in the modern times. Both Social progress and human evolution depend on the computer programs. In the practical application, a software consists of different programs and then combines with hardware to develop into a high-tech Electronic product. There are many kinds of electronic products found everywhere in our daily life. Nearly all the time do we make use of these products to conduct our passion.

Yes, it is definitely right that programming is a hard work because of its special characteristics---complicated, time-wasted, logical. To make a program needs our continual patient and confidence, and we should accept failure again and again in most cases. But once you go into further understanding of computer programs, you will be surprised at the programs’ wander. In detail, through programming a heap of date or a computing model can be easily solved we expected, such as a number wanted, or the model’s parameters. The magical power of program appeals to all the programmers, certainly including me.

It is of great convenience for us to simplify or model our complex questions by programming. Furthermore, studying and using programs can enforce us to form our ability of analyzing and logic. Computer language has its regular grammar. How to organize the language into a reasonable calculating method in a high efficiency like speaking easy-understanding and breath-saving words, is an awful challenge for us, and it will be very funny.

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Now, software is more and more important in our life, therefore programmer becomes a popular profession, which is one urgent need in the society. For our country, it’s very important to ensure our national security from others, such as Japan. Enhancing military strength makes us pay more attention to the informationalized war that attached intensely to the fundamental function of program and software. It is truth that China has a huge population of 1.4 billion, which means messy things from all the people every day. Also, to govern the society orderly all benefit from information composed by programs.

Take a more closer example, in the classroom, we are graduate students of engineering, and will be occupied in researching and designing work. Thus, not only is programming our tool in study, but also become a weapon that promoting science and technology and producing invention and innovation.

I love programming, because of its powerful function.

I love programming, because of its abundant application.

I love programming, because of its terrible challenge.

I love programming, but I am not intend to be an outstanding programmer, nor making a great researching achievement. I just want to know it and do what I want with it.

I hope you firstly remove the horrible psychology upon programming, and then try to get in touch with it. At last, I hope programming gives you much happiness in life!

译文：

编程与生活

破晓时分，一扇窗子打开，窗子旁边站着一个人，他望向窗外密密麻麻的建筑物，畅快地呼吸着新鲜空气，但是，仅仅一会儿，他便踱步回到座椅上，紧紧盯着电脑屏幕，这个人多半是程序员。

有这么一个人，他专心致志于他的电脑，却并不关心他的穿戴，甚至他是否洗漱过。 有这么一个人，他对计算机语言相当精通，却拥有并不高的情商，也不善处人事关系。 有这么一个人，他日夜待在家，独立做着自己的事，却朋友甚少。

上面描述的一些形象多半就是人们对程序员的印象，实际上，程序员有时确实给我们留下了不好的印象。然而，人们对程序员生活的看法只是偏见，更不用说能体会到编程的乐趣。毫无疑问，计算机程序的作用或明显或潜在地影响着我们生活的方方面面，尤其体现在我们使用的电子产品上。

当你为拥有一部苹果手机而骄傲的时候，不要忘了是程序让你有了向别人炫耀这部先进手机的绝对信心。

当你利用电脑摆平生活中的困难的时候，不要忘了是程序让你贪图到了电脑的便利。 当你因为拥有一台空调而不必为炎热的夏日和寒冷的冬天发愁的时候，不要忘了是程序让你享受到了这台机器的智能。

当你用各种网络游戏来释放工作带来的压力时，不要忘了是程序让你在生活中享受到了网络游戏的巨大娱乐功能。

如同人的思想支配行为一样，计算机程序在现代生活中扮演着重要的角色，社会进步和人类进化都离不开程序。在实际应用中，一个软件是由许多程序组成，然后结合硬件组装成为一个高科技电子产品。在日常生活中，到处都可以发现各种各样的电子产品，几乎每分每秒我们都在利用这些产品来激发我们的生活热情。

没错，编程是一项艰巨的工作，因为编程拥有不同寻常的特点——复杂、费时、逻辑性。编程需要我们持续的耐心和信心，并且在大树情况下我们应该能接受屡战屡败。但是一旦你深入了解程序后，你将为程序的神奇而震惊。具体来说，通过编程，一堆数据或者一个计算模型被轻易得到分析，得到我们想要的数据，或是模型的一些参数。编程的这种神奇的力量吸引所有的程序员，当然也包括我。

编程除了会带来复杂问题简单化或是模型化，重要的是还能锻炼我们的分析能力和逻辑能力。计算机语言有规定的语法，如何将这些语言组织成一种合理的计算算法，并且效率高，将是挑战我们一件事，好比我们说的话是简单易懂的且不费口舌，这将会非常有趣。

（PPT介绍自己做的小软件1，及其应用。）

（PPT介绍自己做的小软件2，及其应用。）

（PPT介绍自己做的小软件3，及其应用。）

对我们的国家来说，保护国家安全不受别国欺凌，是非常重要的，比如日本。加强军事实力让我们不得不关注信息化战争，而它与程序和软件的基础功能是息息相关的。中国已有14亿的巨大人口了，这意味着每天将发生来自所有人们的各种杂乱事物，管理社会秩序也得益于程序集成的信息。再近一点说，在这个课堂里的我们都是工科研究生，将来从事的都是研究、设计工作，程序不仅仅是我们的一种工具，更是一种推动科技进步、发明创新的有力的武器。

更近一点来讲，在这个教室内，我们都是工科研究生，并且将来多半从事研究和设计方面工作。所以，程序不仅仅应成为我们学习的工具，还要成为我们推动科技，加大发明创新的武器。

我喜欢编程，喜欢它强大的功能。

我喜欢编程，喜欢它丰富的应用。

我喜欢编程，喜欢它可怕的挑战。

我喜欢编程，并不是想成为伟大的程序员，也并不是想做出优异的科研成绩，而是去了解它，用它做自己想做的事。

我希望大家首先从心理上卸下对程序的恐惧，然后试着去了解它，最后希望程序能给大家的生活带来乐趣！

第二篇：十分钟英语史

【The History of English in Ten Minutes】No.1 Anglo-Saxon

The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter 1. Anglo-Saxon or whatever happen to the Jutes.

The English language begins with the phrase ?Up Yours Caesar!? as the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes start flooding in, tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons – who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon, and the Jutes – who didn?t.

The Romans left some very straight roads behind, but not much of their Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon vocab was much more useful as it was mainly words for simple everyday things like ?house?, ?woman?, ?loaf? and ?werewolf?.

Four of our days of the week - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods, but they didn?t bother with Saturday, Sunday and Monday as they had all gone off for a long weekend.

While they were away, Christian missionaries stole in bringing with them leaflets about jumble sales and more Latin. Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happier to take on funky new words like ?martyr?, ?bishop? and ?font?. Along came the Vikings, with their action-man words like ?drag?, ?ransack?, ?thrust? and ?die?, and a love of pickled herring. They may have raped and pillaged but there were also into ?give? and ?take? – two of around 2000 words that they gave English, as well as the phrase ?watch out for that man with the enormous axe.?

【The History of English in Ten Minutes】No.2 The Norman Conquest

The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter Two, The Norman Conquest or Excuse My English.

1066. True to his name, William the Conqueror invades England, bringing new concepts from across the channel, like the French language, the Doomsday Book and the duty-free Galois's multipack.French was "de rigueur" for all official business, with words like "judge", "jury", "evidence" and "justice" coming in and giving John Grisham's career a kick-start. Latin was still used "ad nauseam" in church, but the common man spoke English, able to communicate only by speaking more slowly and loudly until the others understood him. Words like "cow", "sheep" and "swine" come

from the English-speaking farmers. While the "a la carte" versions "beef", "mutton" and "pork" come from the French-speaking toffs, beginning a long-running trend of restaurants having completely indecipherable menus.

All in all, the English absorbed about 10,000 new words from the Normans, though they still couldn't grasp the rules of cheek kissing. The "bon-ami" all ended when the English nation took their new warlike lingo of "armies", "navies" and "soldiers" and began the Hundred Years' War against France. It actually lasted 116 years but by that point, no one could count any higher in French and English took over as the language of power.

【The History of English in Ten Minutes】No.3 Shakespeare

The history of English in ten minutes. Chapter three, Shakespeare, or a plaque on both his houses.

As the dictionary tells us about 2,000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare.

He gave us handy words like eyeball, puppydog and anchovy and more show-offy words like dauntless, besmirch and lacklustre. He came up with the word alligator soon after he ran out of the things to rhyme with crocodile. And the nation of tea drinkers finally took into their hearts when he invented the hob-nob.

Shakespeare knew the power of catchphrases as well as biscuits. Without him, we would never eat our flesh and blood out of house and home. We would have to say good riddance to the green-eyed monster and breaking the ice would be as dead as a doornail.

If you tried to get your money's worth, you'd be given short shrift and anyone who laid it on with a trowel could be hoised with his own petard. Of course it's possible other people used these words first. But the dictionary writers like looking them up in Shakespeare because there was more cross dressing and people poking each other's eyes out.

Shakespeare's poetry showed the world that English was a rich vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power and he still had time to open all those tea rooms in Stratford.

【The History of English in Ten Minutes】No.4 The King James Bible

The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter four. The King James Bible or light there be.

In 1611 ?the powers that be? ?turned the world upside down? with a ?labour of love? – a new translation of the bible. A team of scribes with the ?wisdom of Solomon? - ?went the extra mile? to make King James?s translation ?all things to all men?, whether from their ?heart?s desire? ?to fight the good fight? or just for the ?filthy lucre?. This sexy new Bible went ?from strength to strength?, getting to ?the root of the matter? in a language even ?the salt of the earth? could understand. ?The writing wasn?t on the wall?, it was in handy little books and with ?fire and brimstone? preachers reading from it in every church, its words and phrases ?took root? ?to the ends of the earth? – well at least the ends of Britain.

The King James Bible is the book that taught us that ?a leopard can?t change its spots?, that ?a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?, that ?a wolf in sheep?s clothing? is harder to spot than you would imagine, and how annoying it is to have ?a fly in your ointment?.

In fact, just as ?Jonathan begat Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah. And Micah begat Pithon?, the King James Bible begat a whole glossary of metaphor and morality that still shapes the way English is spoken today. Amen.

【English in Ten Minutes】No.5 Science

The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter five. The English of Science or how to speak with gravity.

Before the 17th Century scientists weren?t really recognised – possibly because lab-coats had yet to catch on.

But suddenly Britain was full of physicists – there was Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle – and even some people not called Robert, like Isaac Newton. The Royal Society was formed out of the Invisible College – after they put it down somewhere and couldn?t find it again.

At first they worked in Latin. After sitting through Newton?s story about the

?pomum? falling to the ?terra? from the ?arbor? for the umpteenth time, the bright sparks realised they all spoke English and could transform our understanding of the universe much quicker by talking in their own language.

But science was discovering things faster than they could name them. Words like ?acid?, ?gravity?, ?electricity and ?pendulum? had to be invented just to stop their meetings turning into an endless game of charades.

Like teenage boys, the scientists suddenly became aware of the human body – coining new words like ?cardiac? and ?tonsil?, ?ovary?, and ?sternum? - and the invention of ?penis? (1693), ?vagina? (1682) made sex education classes a bit easier to follow. Though and ?clitoris? was still a source of confusion.

【The History of English in Ten Minutes】No.6 English and Empire

The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter six. English and Empire or the sun never set on the English language.

With English making its name as the language of science, the Bible and Shakespeare, Britain decided to take it on tour.

Asking only for land, wealth, natural resources, total obedience to the crown and a few local words in return.

They went to the Caribbean looking for gold and a chance to really unwind – discovering the ?barbeque?, the ?canoe? and a pretty good recipe for rum punch. They also brought back the word ?cannibal? to make their trip sound more exciting.

In India there was something for everyone. ?Yoga? – to help you stay in shape, while pretending to be spiritual. If that didn?t work there was the ?cummerbund? to hide a paunch and - if you couldn?t even make it up the stairs without turning ?crimson? – they had the ?bungalow?.

Meanwhile in Africa they picked up words like ?voodoo? and ?zombie? – kicking off the teen horror film – and even more terrifying, they brought home the world?s two most annoying musical instruments – the ?bongo? and the ?banjo?.

From Australia, English took the words ?nugget?, ?boomerang? and ?walkabout? - and in fact the whole concept of chain pubs.

Between toppling Napoleon (1815) and the first World War (1914), the British

Empire gobbled up around 10 millions square miles, 400 million people and nearly a hundred thousand gin and tonics, leaving new varieties of English to develop all over the globe.

【English in Ten Minutes】The age of dictionary or the definition of a hopeless task.

With English expanding in all directions came a new breed of man called lexicographers, who wanted to put an end to this anarchy a word they defined as what happens when people spell words slightly differently from each other.

One of the greatest was doctor Johnson, whose Dictionary of English Language which took him 9 years to write. It was 18 inches tall and contained 42,773 entries meaning that even if you couldn?t read it?s still pretty useful if you want to reach a high shelf. For the first time when people were calling you a “pickle herring”, ”a jobbernowl ” or a “fopdoodle” you could understand exactly what they meant and you?d have the standard spelling. Try as he might to stop them, words kept being invented and in 1857 a new book was started which would become the Oxford English dictionary.

It took another 70 years to be finished after the first editor resigned to be an archbishop, The second died of TB and the third was so boring that half his volunteers quit and one of them ended up in an Asylum. It eventually appeared in 1928 and has continued to be revised ever since proving the whole idea that you can stop people making up word is complete snuffbumble