A young programmer offered a homeless man the choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.
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The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.
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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.
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Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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