Category: Programming

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  The Hard Part Moved

  Why AI didn’t make programming easier, and what that means for anyone learning it now. I learned to program on a ZX Spectrum in the 80s, and an Amiga in the 90s, typing listings out of books and magazines, and getting them wrong in ways that could swallow an entire afternoon before I found the…

  Written by

  Rob

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  July 22, 2026

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  My Programming Journey

  A personal insight into my journey as a coder, entrepreneur and professor. Introduction My life has been full of technology. From the first moment I experienced a coin operated arcade, I was taken aback by the wonder and amazement of the progress we were making technologically. When I was born, in the late 1970s, there…

  Written by

  Rob

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  July 29, 2022