Programming Languages

This week's reading talks about pair programming, a software development practice in which two developers work at the same time in the same project in the same thing in order to keep track of the work in case one misses. But it also improves times, productivity and software quality. The reading's goal is to facilitate the transition to pair programming by explaining how you already know how to do it. The text begins explaining how pair programming in the XP methodology for development is really successful and how programmers attribute the success of their productivity and the methodology to the technique. And although many programmers tend to work alone and resit to the change, most of them  succeed in the transition to pair programming and begin loving it. The first rule of pair programming is Share everything, even mistakes. The second one is play fair, meaning that you shall not take the control of the development and let the other person also be the one who codes. The thi...

I think the reading was amazing, specially for the month we are in. It is very interesting to know the article mentions all these prominent women in Computer Science who did not get in their time the recognition they deserved. On the other hand, I knew before a lot of the facts about women in computing the article mentions. I can recall that my sister once explained to me that the first programmer was a women because men were most suited for hard labor such as Electronic Engineering and not for something soft as software.But then, just as the article mentions it, the things changed and the number of women in the area drop suddenly because they were replaced by men who saw potential in the area. In this specific area, discrimination against women began due to the high payment job that it represented and also because it was a nerd job, a job for people who often have trouble talking with anyone, people that is really mean. And, if you add up all of these with the fact that women were co...