Technology writer Matthew MacDonald began writing QuickBASIC code back in 1988 on the DOS operating system, sharing it on a 3.5-inch floppy disk. “I still remember writing code in white text on its cheery blue background…” He tells his readers on Medium that “I have a confession to make. Before I became a respectable developer working with modern curly-bracket languages like…
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Factory Workers Become Coders as Companies Automate
As automation changes the way factories operate, some U.S. companies are training workers in programming and robotics, letting machinists get a taste of coding. From a report: Competition from China was among the reasons Drew Greenblatt, chief executive of manufacturing firm Marlin Steel Wire Products, purchased $2 million worth of robots in the past 15 months. The Baltimore-based maker of wire…