back then when i was introduced to computers and Linux the first time, i struggled to learn Bash Programming . But just yesterday to automate a few tests (so that i could start the bash file and run the tests , and i could go to bed , to check out the results the next morning) i needed to program a bash file..... and i did it in just a few minutes (kidding , took an hour). Engineering has a few advantages after all. Almost all my friends , me included always say that the engineering course we take is really useless......all the topics are out of date..... but it gives us the skill sets to understand new things and also to bring them into being. this is the most important and least appreciated benefit of the engineering course.
i've been toying around with a PHP framework called symfony . actually i wanted to know what MVC ( Model-View-Controller ) was, and i am really comfortable with PHP, so downloaded a copy and made a sandbox on my xampp htdocs directory. after i started playing around it just hit me that how much programming has simplified over the 12 years since i wrote my "hello world" program in c. where 150 people were needed to code a simple website back then, that too in about a year, now things can be done with just one or two programmers in about a fortnight. i think thats awesome. computers are finally doing what they were invented to do - to reduce human work. one really interesting thing is the askeet tutorial. here they guide you through making a replica of their site over 24 days, with each tutorial taking not more than one and a half hours to completely understand and implement. Also the symfony site itself is created on symfony, and that's really cool. ok, what hit me
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