Have a Happy Day of the Programmer!
The international Day of the Programmer is celebrated annually on the 256th day of the year (on 13 September in non-leap years). Why the 256th day? I mean, you already know, but I’ll explain it to your non-tech friends who are also reading.
The number 256 – which is 28 or hexadecimal 100 – is the possible number of distinct values represented by a byte. It’s also the highest power of two that’s still less than the number of days in a year, so there’s that.
For this year’s Day of the Programmer, I interviewed two members of the Developer Advocate team here at Couchbase: Aaron LaBeau (@biozal) and Elliot Scribner (@ejscribner).
Let’s hear what they have to say about the changing realities of the profession as they reflect on the past, present and future of what it means to be a programmer and developer.
I was amazed at what it could do, and after that, I became interested in all the hardware that made it work. In fifth grade, I checked out a book on BASIC programming for beginners as I wanted to learn how they made games on the Atari.
