Lecture in game programming for youngsters
- Anne Balsby Roersen
- 6. sep. 2017
- 1 min læsning
Last night, the YMCA had in collaboration with Indie Games (a local IT society for youngsters) organized a presentation by lecturer in computer and information science at Indiana University, Andrew J Harris.
"The computer is never smart. It is the programmer behind the computer", Harris said. Indirectly and elegantly, Harris last night managed to increase the interest in computer programming when he introduced the IT-knowledgeable youngsters who listened closely to and participated in the computer programming lecture. According to Harris, the computer is a tool for the programmer to make the ideas become real; as well as a pen is a tool for the artist. "So if you can think it, you can do it".
His humor and humble attitude made the presentation eatable for anyone; even the inexperienced Danish volunteers participated. Harris managed to put the programming in a bigger perspective, and he used the opportunity to emphasize the importance of for example math, if the youngsters dreamed of a future in the IT industry. "Have you ever told your teacher that the mathematics of a coordinate system was useless? Ha! You were wrong", he said with a smile while he looked over the audience.
To those, who do not know, programming is a complicated language, and it requires IT-skills to understand the system. Harris therefore reminded the audience about, the importance of failing and trying again. That everybody, who is good at something, once started from scratch. "The secret of being an expert is that you have made more mistakes than the others", he said. Self-ironically he continued and said that he hadn't done anything but mistakes the last 30 years.
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