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Jensen Huang Says Coding is Dead
Does that mean you should stop learning to code?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently made headlines saying that coding is dead!
Is it?
Well, let’s reason out an answer.
What is coding?
Coding is simply a way to communicate with a machine. It’s the translator that converts human logic into machine logic.
A Brief History
In the 1940s, coding involved punching in sequences of 0s and 1s (binary machine code) directly into massive mainframes. It was a tedious and error-prone process.
By the 1950s, mnemonics were introduced. This breakthrough combined certain binary operations into readable instructions, such as MOV or ADD. Programmers no longer needed to remember long sequences of binary; they could now use words that represented those sequences.
The 1960s saw the birth of high-level programming languages like FORTRAN, which abstracted away the hardware entirely. Now, programmers could focus on logic and problem-solving instead of worrying about the underlying binary.
This paved the way for structured programming languages like C in the 1970s, enabling modular, maintainable code.
