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Fundamentals of Java Programming

Podstawy programowania w języku Java

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⇑Fundamentals of Java Programming at Kozminski University

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: computer science

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University website: www.kozminski.edu.pl/en/

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Programming

Playing with pointers is like playing with fire. Fire is perhaps the most important tool known to man. Carefully used, fire brings enormous benefits; but when fire gets out of control, disaster strikes.

John Barnes, Programming in Ada 2012, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 189

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Programming

If you lie to the computer, it will get you.

Perry Farrar (1985) attributed to Farrar in John Bentley (1985) "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science". In: Communications of the ACM, Vol 28. Nr.9, p. 899

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Programming

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

RADM Grace Hopper, on the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark I experimental computer at Harvard in August 1945, as quoted in Time (16 April 1984)

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