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@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too

Жыл бұрын

When speed is important the best programming language will always be the one that attracts the best compiler programmers. How that programming language is constructed isn't really that important as long as it gives a certain degree of freedom. Even if the language is crap this is a solvable problem by putting a scripting language and a parser on top. The C language doesn't come with any extraordinary features. In fact, it is pretty primitive and would be how most programmers would have done things on their first attempt if they only were intelligent enough not to pollute with redundant punctuation.

@michaelmueller9635

Жыл бұрын

One correction: Rust is a crossover of C and Haskell.

@dbtest117

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, very interesting. Still watching, but I just have this tingling question. Why can’t we have smalltalk to mature to something that would be adopted?

@RockawayCCW

Жыл бұрын

Is that why Douglas Adams chose that number?

@pauldwalker

Жыл бұрын

it is, and for exactly the reasons discussed.

When I learned C it just made everything that I'd learned about programming and programming languages so much clearer ad gave me a better understanding of why we do things a certain way. Keep up the good work David, I love your content.

@knofi7052

Жыл бұрын

That moment was assembler for me.😉

The way the professor talks is so understandable that he should start live streaming all his lectures...this kind of people we need to learn..

@Jorsten

Жыл бұрын

Still, 13h to teach python basics is just nuts. It should be done in 4h max.

@abbylynn8872

Жыл бұрын

@@Jorsten 4 hrs would be for those that understand what's going on and understand more about the internet. For those that are trying to figure it our 13 hrs is what's needed. I remember my first programming class and realized everyone knew something I didn't. I didn't have that light bulb moment until the class was almost over. I could perform a task when asked but it wasn't intuitive. Now troubleshooting and problem solving was second nature so that was easy. Like asking what is your code supposed to do and seeing that's not what's happening.... Everyone is not at the same level you are. He's made is accessible for all.

@rosh70

Жыл бұрын

@@Jorsten It's a full university course - an hour per week, 13 weeks. He's giving you a full university (3 credit) course, for FREE. The least you can be, is thankful.

C is the language of love! I still have my '78 and '88 White books. Learning to "color inside the lines" in C makes you a super coder in almost any other language. All hail uncle Dennis! (may he RIP)

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

Love that Scott!

@maxmuster7003

Жыл бұрын

C is a typically fascist programming language.

@smergibblegibberish

Жыл бұрын

@@maxmuster7003 Explain, please.

@Bloodthirst

Жыл бұрын

@@maxmuster7003 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@bobanmilisavljevic7857

Жыл бұрын

@@maxmuster7003 leftee AIDS mentality

About 3/4 through with Chuck's PY4E course and its great! Been slacking lately but that's all on me, he's a *fantastic* teacher and such a *gem* for making this freely available to all!

The best interview with Dr. Chuck. This was the ultimate pinnacle of computer science I have listened in 40+ minutes on KZread. Absolute ingenious and made me think of problem solving a little better

One of my favorite guests on your youtube channel, David. Thank you!

Two gems at the same time David, you have a great channel which is so focused on what you show and Dr Chuck, what a great personality I watched the Path to master programmer another superb video with so much gifts in it I learnt C on Unix about 20 years back and I fell in love with it Have been out of the loop for a while but this post from you and Dr. Chuck I am going to brush up on it and while simultaneously checking out RUST. More power to you David Keep it coming

The beauty of C and the ability to abstract the software is that it works both ways. The hardware is now decoupled from the software as well allowing BOTH paths to improve/iterate independent of the other, but but influenced by needs and features wanted. Very great conversation!!!

Absolutely pivotal content for me at this point in my coding journey... The Contexts and insights opened the real world of coding up. Suddenly it all makes sense.

Always glad to see and hear Dr. Chuck! ❤🎉

I bought the ‘78 edition of K&R’s C Programming Language book, in ‘78! I used C to write many data communications programs, from emulators to communications servers, and masses of other programs, on all sorts of platforms. I do not agree that C is unsafe; it’s the person who writes the program that usually cuts corners. I’m one of the ‘vintage’ programmers who also believes that, today, programs (call them ‘apps’ if you want to) are not sufficiently tested before being put into production, whatever language they might be written in. Testing, thoroughly testing, is essential.

New year with 🔥 content from you David sir.

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Vardhan!

First time here David. I enjoyed this interview and I really appreciate "your silence" letting the expert share his knowledge. I has great value!!!! Thanks for this and subscribed now...

Seems like brain absorbs different when you hear the story from fisrt hand. Great talk/video David. Thanks both for taking the time. 👌👏🙌

Thanks Dr. Chuck and David for sharing the knowledge and insights.

I like the clear and concise manner that the Professor explains the reasoning behind learning several core languages may be the best way to become competent in programming. Thank you and your guest for sharing his valuable insights!

Thank you for bringing on all of these awesome people David. Very cool.

Dr. Chuck was on 🔥 I'm currently taking his Django for everybody course and it's been awesome. there is so much to learn in the world of computers. thank David, such an awesome video.

@chestsharma4004

Жыл бұрын

Does the free courses at his websites also give a certificate for free, if so then what are the steps, or is the degree provided only to the students who paid for it. I was wondering if I should do freecodecamp's course as they provide a certificate for free. Please give your insights on if I should pursue his course despite not getting any certificates.

@andrewdalton6973

Жыл бұрын

@@chestsharma4004 I don't think certifications will really do much honestly. Just learn as much as you can and makr sure to do as many projects as possible.

@chestsharma4004

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewdalton6973 thanks for the advice.

@andrewdalton6973

Жыл бұрын

@@chestsharma4004 np

Top notch content as always. Thanks for making these type of videos, any aspiring or growing IT pro should watch this

I watched Dr Chuck's master programmer video on your channel last night.That video really helped me. I'm all set to take his python course first then django and C. He's really inspirational to me.

Awesome interview. A big thanks to Dr Chuck for providing us access to the site. Bonus points for Douglas Adams/racecar password.

WOW! Dr. Chuck! I just finished his intro course to Python on Coursera. Seeing him on David Bombal's channel is a huge validation.

great stuff, love these interviews from Dr. Chuck

Mr David i am glad that i embarked your channel due to flipper zero and subscribe. Dr Chuck was so inspirational and has kindel the joy of computer science, it's been a tough 2 year of 4 year journey of computer science and have no pasion towards computer science. I hope I can change it now, thankyou Dr Chuck.

I like the Dr. Chuck approach ... got also some of his Coursera courses ... Happy New Year 2023 from Germany !

Thanks, David and Dr.

Shalom and thank you Dr. C for taking the time to create all the courses you have created and to teach for free.

Wow, I've been working in the industry for decades, (minor programming "Fortran & Foxbase") and then infrastructure; making sure the servers and networks are optimized for performance. this quick overview on application layer programming has really opened my eyes on how the industry developed.

A brilliant discussion. I had the benefit of a broad Comp Sci education, thirty years ago, and I find the general concepts are still applicable. I was also involved in certification for network engineers, and Chuck's comments about vendor education is spot-on.

What is discussed here is what I lived. Started programming in 1967 in an SDS 910 in assembly language. Learned Fortran, then used it on Data General Minicomputers. Wrote a compiler for the DG to create structured assembly. Never heard of C until the first PC's came out with Borland C, then Turbo-C. worked with Motorola 68000's in C, then moved to Freescale Coldfire in C. Application was Communications for Meteor Burst and Line of sight messaging and data acquisition. Not at 83 I sit at home playing with Windows-10 using Microsoft Visual Studio. I never had time or funding to learn C++, but I have all of Stroustrup's books and have read them, but without a motivating project, not started the brain transition.

@guytech7310

Жыл бұрын

C++ isn't any better than C. Just adds layers. I try to avoid using C++ since it makes it a pain if you want to just grab a couple of functions out of C++ class to use them in another project. You could include the entire class, but then you can end up with bloatware. Another annoynance is when people have classes that depend on other classes, which can turn into a spagetti code when your trying to clean up a app or modernize it.

Looking forward to that C and Assembly knowledge from Dr. Chuck, what an exciting year

This is some instructive material. Thank you both!

The editing is brilliant!

Dr. Chuck really takes the time to make a good course took almost all his courses on coursera, great instructor, he understands how teach without cramping information in students minds without planing

What a fun interview! I have a copy of the C book - it was one of the first books about programming I bought in late 1970s. I am not a professional programmer but know enough to understand what my professionals do. I totally agree that programming should be taught as a apprentice ship! And finished with a PhD if appropriate for the person. I've played with and created useful things in RCA 1802 machine code, basic, VB, Java, Fortran, MUMPS and Python. Programming should be fun and progressive. Thank you!

Much respect David. Thanks so so much

Extraordinary! Thank you! I'll enjoy each of his links! Would you please ask Dr. Chuck to have another podcast with you, discussing AI and ChatGPT? In what ways will AI change the most valuable skills a programmer needs to learn and master?

Thanks for the great video David bombal and Dr chuck's 😍😍

Fascinating interview.

Love listening to both of these gentlemen.

Dr. Chuck is so good....Thanks for this David.

Fantastic video and a peek at computer history. Thank you.

Eagerly waiting for this course to come out . C is love.

I'm addicted to this channel. Such interesting quality videos about subjects I didn't know or care before.

Severance is my fav online instructor. He is so fluent and clear with what he teaches and his curriculum is fantastic and goes into depth about every subject before moving on. The best teacher

@rogerc23

Жыл бұрын

So true

Very awesome, hope to be invited again many times more in the future, thank you David

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope so too! Dr Chuck is amazing!

Always a treat

happy new year DAVID sir!! , thank you for another great content..

Very interesting interview, thanks.

Watching this video is so pleasant, love the way this guy gets excited about his work as a professor and content creator. C is a non intiutive language to learn IMO, looking forward to this course to see if It changes my mind. Thanks @david for this Jewel.

You can feel the passion! I love dr chuck ❤

I enjoyed this video more than a movie!! I started studying computers in the early 1980s. My favourite programming languages are C, Python, PHP and PC assembler. Nice to see a man of the calibre of Dr Chuck, liking the same stuff as I do. Although I moved into DevOps, programming is still my first love ... and this video motivated me to go back to my first love and do what I love - then a job turns into "playing". I miss playing ... (and getting paid to do it 😀)

@eventhisidistaken

Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. I started programming at age 10 in basic, then moved onto fortran, then to c and then c++ and Java, plus scripting languages and have been programming for almost 50 years now. c++ is my overall favorite, and work often does feel a lot like playtime, even still.

@CallousCoder

Жыл бұрын

So all the old programming geezers end up in DevOps CI/CS 😂 here another one who started programming in 1983 and done a lot of languages and still love assembly. But I’m doing IaC and CI/CD development

Character oriented processing was being done in the mid-1960's. Commercially it was available in 1968. Operating systems were built using assembler where the programming language(s) were interpreted and thus portable to different machines as the hardware evolved. This was used heavily in medical systems. The time share executive, language interpreter and database were all included in a system which then ran on Digital Equipment, Data General, Tandem, HP, Prime, IBM, and other mini-computers. This was extended to the micro computers when they came about. Our company ran 12 users on a 80286 (PC/AT) back in 1983. Microsoft wondered how we could do it. 🙂So, my point is to say that from my vantage point, 1978 was no magic year as explained in this video. BTW: I have a copy of "The C Programming Language" 1978 edition, which is in like new condition. I have worked programming clinical systems since 1974 and have never really had a need to use C, other than to use it for illustrations.

Dr Chuck is amazing! Same, for you :D Thank you David for interviewing him!

Dr Chuck...........wow so nice to see him after so long, I remember taking his courses on Coursera!!!!

8 minutes in… this guy is truly passionate and a true master… he wants to make sure that this is passed on and and people understand and able to teach it…

The Great Dr., I luv ur deliberation because it's exquisite.

Very informative, thanks David ---- and answer is 42

Thanks 🙏

Thank you!

Very interesting speech covering the IT evolution rocket by C language. I bought that C book in the late 70's. Even not being a professional programmer I noticed there was something revolutionary in that C language.

Wow .. What a trip down memory lane. For the first time, I could relate - from the 262-bit word format for larger mainframe systems to the 8-bit byte for PDP/8e machines back in the day

Started learning Rust a month ago. No regrets so far. I've done threaded programming in Java, so the memory model seems logical to me, and it's much more organized than C++ where it's easy to ignore smart pointers without marking the unsafe code.

My first computer was an Altos 586 running Altos Xenix, and I learned to program in C with the original edition K&R C book, and the AT&T Unix Version 7 programmers manual vol 1 & 2.

Thanks for this invaluable Video my Career Coach David B.

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jonathan! Dr Chuck is amazing and has courses you can take for free :)

Love you David ❤️❤️ big fan

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Learning in a practical way what is it and how it can be made is a must for professionals: several technologies and programming languages covering most important concepts, design patterns, use cases is a better start for professional work than learning just one but too deep specialized. I learned first foundations (mathematics, physics, hardware: electricity, electronics, circuits, micro electronics chips) and after that software (BASIC, Assembler, Fortran, C, Pascal, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, SQL).

Dr. Chuck rocks!🎉

Rust does not have garbage collection. It is unique among programming languages, it is memory safe without it because it has borrow checker. That is how zero cost abstraction is accomplished, there is no waiting for unused memory to be released automatically.

@ChuckSeverance

Жыл бұрын

Thanks - I have not yet dug into Rust - your comment suggests it is a great language for operating system and server development but won't necessarily be the next great general purpose language for all. It is good for a language to have a lane, stay in the lane, and be the perfect solution in its space.

@maniacZesci

Жыл бұрын

@@ChuckSeverance It is hard to predict where Rust will go, but from current threads it seems it will be more lanes rather than one. There are already web servers written in it, graphics libraries for game development and other apps that use graphics, crates for working with databases among many other things. There are also web frameworks written in it for web development where it compiles to WASM. Rust also has JavaScript interoperability, JS code can be called in Rust and other way around, because it has crates for that too. So it is already kind of general purpose language, but will it be accepted and used by most it's hard to say because it is one of the harder ones to learn.

@beniscoding

Жыл бұрын

@@ChuckSeverance there is no garbage collection but there is also no manual memory management. Rust requires being very explicit about ownerships and lifetimes. So rather than garbage collected automatic memory management, and manual memory management, it is more a kind of declarative memory management. This makes it a bit more verbose to write code with. However I do not think it will greatly reduce the scope of what it will be used for. It also has a smart way of avoiding specific types of data race concurrency issues which is not found in the popular languages. This makes it a very interesting language for many domains, particularly multithreaded ones. The main one that comes to mind that is not OS and server specific is UI development. UIs nearly always use multiple threads to remain responsive.

@eventhisidistaken

Жыл бұрын

You can do the same thing in c++ with shared_ptr, but yes, it is not enforced by the language itself, it depends on a development team following guidelines.

@beniscoding

Жыл бұрын

@@eventhisidistaken I agree that the same is possible in C++ however we have demonstrated over and over again that we were not able to keep to our best practices as a C++ dev industry. Microsoft has spent millions in trying to educate and enforce it for their own code and failed. And seeing the security issues that keep popping up, they are not the only ones who struggled with this. Note that rust's memory model is very different to shared_ptr. The semantics are different, what happens at runtime is different, the consequences are different. With shared_ptr, you have UPDATES to a counter when a new reference is made with it. If this happens from a different thread, you might start having contention on that counter. I think unique_ptr is closer to what the Rust has integrated rather than shared_ptr. shared_ptr is closer to what garbage collected languages use than what Rust uses as part of the language semantics. In Rust, it just being a compile-time check, there is no added runtime work or contention. That being said, a shared_ptr equivalent does exist if needed in Rust (Rc and Arc). Note that Rust also checks also forbids a very large category of data race errors. I am unaware of any language having such kind of guarantees about their compiled code.

Dr Chuck is a great and knowledgeable teacher another great guest David

Thanks master David from Morocco 💪

God bless you bro 👍

When someone has a clear passion for both technology and education!! Super inspirational!

Great Job Sir, vry vry expensive conversation heard in my whole collage life,,, Thank You so much

Thanks for this super video

Really beautiful video

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Shoumik!

Thank you legends

Here we go💗❤❤❤❤❤

This is a content rich talk, in which I don't even feel the time passing by. That is amazing!

I love learning , excellent content

Lots of love and happy new yar David from India🇮🇳

This video is awesome.

I wish my 1st..& thus Only ,,CS Professor cared as much as Dr. Chuck obviously does...

dr chuck was on fire. just amazing!

❤ just Awesome

This man is such an inspiration! Wish I woulda found him sooner.

¡ Happy New Year 2023 ! ¡ Happy Coding New Year ! I really enjoyed and learned from this video

This was really great to watch, but I'm interested to know why no reference was made to C# and the CLR.

took his coursera course and it was fire

Interesting. In the late 90's I became injured on a job site and went back to the University and at first studied mathematics followed by obtaining a graduate degree in theoretical mathematics with emphasis on probability. However as a undergraduate I minored in computer science thus learned the high level flavor of the day aka C++ and later Fortran 90 because I worked as a graduate assistant for an atmospheric scientist. I actually found high level language coding fun and like being on vacation compared to theoretical mathematics where really understanding why a theorem is valid can be a several days long journey full of wrong assumptions with coding more like building a house using pre-defined functions rather than studs and joists. Now, at age 67 and being years since I coded my memory of syntax has pretty much disappeared with respect to Fortran 90 and C++, but not the essential or underlying functionality of features of coding. Thus, today having a desire to code again for a project I have on my horizon I find Python which I am teaching myself an easy and fun endeavor. Now, if you look at low level languages which I find very interesting because it provides a much deeper understanding of the machine itself fun or seeming like taking a vacation from theoretical mathematics is a different story.....

Thanks for the great video on python tools and C very interesting and great programming languages

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Emmet!

Great video! What’s coming next from iso C2x?

I needed some high-performance numerical computing for my own engineering software. I used Ebay rather than Amazon for servers. Great deals on old servers on Ebay. Rust might be superior to C++, but I highly doubt that I can find the libraries I need for math calculations there, e.g. optimization, GUI development, etc... And Java's huge flaw is that as far as I know, it doesn't have a complex number data type nor the possibility of creating one (no operator overloading).

42. The meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

A long years ago, this book(C M.Ritchie) was rare in sovet union , we had done hand copy this book in our writing books.

Bro 👏👏🔥

@davidbombal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

C is really the best programming to learn. To really learn the fine points, assembly language. The beauty of assembly language you can absolute control including the size of sound waves. You do not have that kind of control with C. I still have my TASM compiler backed up from my original Borland disks! TASM is the best compiler you can get for assembly language and I'm glad I have a copy of it. That being said, for practicality, COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) is still widely used in business such as ATM machines, payroll and accounting applications; it's been around since 1959 and still highly used. COBOL is not going away.

If you really want to have a high paygrade programming job, learn javascript, typescript, nodeJS and react. Those pay a looooooot and are in higher demand than any of the languages mentioned in the video.

For me C++ without a doubt. It took the limitations but lowlevel goodness from C and added some nice abstraction for higher level programming on to it. It can do everything with ease. And adore C because first I came from assembly and learned C I was like: “where was this before?!?!” This is so easy and comfortable and fast! But I use the language most suited for the job although when I need to build something fast, I tend to use C++ because of the rote experience and the raw speed. I seldom use Python or Perl these days but in the past I did. A language is just a tool and you don’t take a screwdriver to hammer a nail into the wall, sure you’ll get there but it takes more effort than getting a hammer.