Although I'm just an amateur, I can definitely understand how Knuth and others feel when they write code. It's like building something, planning the Empire State Building, then building it yourself. The feeling you get when it's finished is almost indescribable. I suppose the same as when a architect sees his building after finished, or when a musical group writes a song and hears it on the radio. A great feeling.

getting a high from coding... I know that feeling.

I remember writing my own assembler, in Basic, for the Commodore 64 when I was 14 back in the mid 80s. Writing machine code in pure decimal was quite painful, so I wrote an assembler to make it easier. Being able to code using mnemonics was a huge leap for me. I remember my very first machine code program on the C64 was moving a sprite across the screen. When I ran the program it just looked like a blur, and I thought it was a bug until I realised it was just moving really fast. I had to put a load of NOP instructions in to slow it down. Happy memories, and all these years later I'm still doing it (in C++) and still loving it. Plus it's provided me with a good career. I love software.

Can't wait for what the future holds in technology and software.

Coding is like an extension of your thought, it runs when you want to make something happen again and it runs super fast. Even when you are not there to make sure it runs, if it is crafted well, it can run over and over again, like a part of your mind but efficient and unrelenting. The feeling that I get from successfully implementing a feature is euphoric and addictive. I absolutely love writing good code, especially when it can run even when you are asleep.

I find programming similar to solving a puzzle. Stressful at time but so happy when I accomplished it. There’s def a difference between beautiful codes and ugly ones. It’s like writing. Some can write beautifully and some writes with nothing but grammatical errors.

Writing software is like writing literature or poerty for me; and I write software for people to read as well as computers to execute. It's art to me. 💙💚💜 It is a set of magical incantations that come to life!

The guy at the start who spoke so passionately about programming as eash new line of code giving him a high and making him feel good.. only a programmer I think can truly understand what he's conveying. I'm a programmer myself, self-taught. My first program was in BASIC before modern deskop computers became more affordable and commonplace. I borrowed a friends BBC Micro which he used exclusively for playing games on, like most people. Nobody I knew thought to try programming one. So my friend was puzzled when he saw that black screen and cursor flashing. He asked if I'd broken the computer. I reassured him it was not broken, just awaiting instructions. I remember writing my first program in BASIC which was a simple print hello loop pressing enter and seeing it work (after a few trial and errors) and my second program added two numbers together. Seeing the second program run and do math was astonishing. I experienced that feeling of awe and the high programmer described. I began thinking, how can I expand this program to do different type of math, beyond just addition, and soon it did. Programming is both a science and a creative act. It's almost like modern form of alchemy in many ways, providing the ability to manipulate matter and energy using a machine and languge code. Complex ideas from your mind can become realised in the physical world through programming. It's kind of magical and empowering. The only limit is your imagination. I remember writing my first real program. Several thousand lines of code written in Perl. The program was a comprehensive Web-based eBay seller manager which interfaced directly to eBay using their API. Back then, eBay was still very crude. It lacked so many simple time saving features and obvious ways to improve and optimise businesses selling on eBay. So I studied the API closely and used it to help sellers get the most out of eBay and save a great deal of time. I overcame limitations in the API with a little creative thinking and programming, to go further to surpass the limitations. It wasn't long before my program reached around 37,000 lines of code. With not a single subroutine and no error handling! It soon became difficult to improve further and to debug errors. So I reached out to the programmer community and found someone who became a programming mentor and a close friend for many years. He told me my program was the ugliest program he'd ever seen and absolutely hideous! However he was impressed I'd managed to write such a large first program and overcome API limitations with programming but that in so, I had massively over-complicated the program by not using existing objects, due to my lack of programming knowledge and experience. He taught me the disciplines of programming. The need for subroutines, error handling, neat correct syntax, clear commenting explaining what the subroutines did, and so on. Then he taught me how to use and create objects and SQL quering which took my programming to the next level. We later collaborated together on developing an algorithm for trading financial markets. Programming is extremely satisifying. Seeing something go from an idea in your mind, to a flow chart, then to a running computer program that does something truly unique And it's even more rewarding when your code is used by others, who derive benefits and you receive praise or acknowledgement for making someones life a bit easier or better. Despite programmers having the stereotype image of being loner geeks who don't socialise, the programming community is very socially connected. Ideas, knowledge and skills flow freely between programmers in a way not seen anywhere else. Many programmers are willing to share their time, knowledge and often source code freely, to help others. Solving problems and learning new things together is what makes programming so special. It's what enables software and hardware technology to continually improve and evolve. It's a priviledge being part of a diverse worldwide community of programmers which transcends all cultures and countries. Many programmers have gone on to achieve remarkable things or businesses that have impacted or changed the world forever. And they usually relied upon other programmers. Take the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. A programmer who in the midst of the 2008 banking crisis had a vision for a de-centralised digital currency. He started the programming himself and then formed a small team. Gradually it evolved into a worldwide community that realised the concept behind his ingenious blockchain ledger and nodes approach. And now its created many spin-offs and an entire digital currency ecosystem, all from one man and one idea.

Beautiful video. Brought me to tears at the end. I've never been a professional programmer, and never will be, but I find coding syntax to be beautiful. I find the abstraction of lower level instructions hidden by a print( "hello world") to be beautiful.

*writes a 7 line code *gets 47 errors Don't get high before writing the code

A nice walk down memory lane for those of us educated in the late 60's/early 70's and active in the field throughout our careers. Also an easy way to pick up some history of the field.

What a great production quality. I wish this was just the introduction to a 2 hour video

combining all these information in one video is also an Art!

Don Kluth's enthusiasm brings a smile to my face, I wish I liked anything as much as he likes programming. His love for the field really shows.

Programming is literally an art. Not everyone has the eye or mind for it.

As someone who wants to major in computer science, this video was really informative. Thank you.

Project: *is small* Node developers: *REQUIRES 500 PACKAGES FROM NPM*

Simply beautiful! it's amazing the capacity of the human's brain to create things with a such level of complexity

For people young like me it is great to learn from the pioneers in the field. A lot of programmers my age don't really have a concept of how the higher languages developed over the course of a lifetime. When people here of fortran or assembly they think it is the most archaic thing they have ever herd.

This video was just awesome. It just puts everything into perspective. And makes the somewhat unbelievable and magicly unreal aspect of how computers work to showing us that it works that way because thats how we want it to.

What a greatly made movie! I enjoyed it a lot, especially the vintage feel and it somehow was really cozy.

I love how they included assembly language, that's cool

I am about to start mt Data Structure class and my Introduction to Programming Languages for my CS degree .. i am excited there isn't anything better then understanding how a computer works in my opinion

This video sparks love for programming in me again! Just inspiring! Donald Knuth, live long and prosper!

4:51 should end in a ; not a :

Educational and awesome..thanks for sharing...

My very first computer was a TRS-80 Model I 16K Level II. I used to poke assembly into the memory that was before I heard of MASM. That made it lots easier.

Very well produced video! Thanks for this. Highly informative

This was a nugget of gold. Thank you.

Yes has always been an art, a technique perfected through years of practice with dedication and love on what you do

Awesome! Educational! Inspiring! Thanks!

Finally a general video of coding history. How come no one talks about the history of computers.

Funny timing. This is the first time I have seen Donald Knuth though I have know the name for more that 45 years. Even more interesting, we were clearing out a bunch of books yesterday and two of the books I saved were 2 volumes from Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming." - specifically the volumes on Fundamental Algorithms and Sorting and Searching. They still have value.

Thank's for recognizing our artists talents. Many people don't

Computerizing, as an executer so to say, is giving me pleasure and beside my age i still like working with them, thanks and kind regards.

I’m a competetive programmer and I find this video true and deserving !

I am so delighted and so happy to see young Don.

Found it amusing as a professional software engineer. Thanks internet.

Learning and applying the craft is very exciting, almost limitless possibilities. The responsibility relies on understanding and correctly applying the theory, as opposed to making things that seem to work. In the latter an example was someone putting delays in a program. He said the if you use 5 delays this funky bug would go away, so he put in 10 delays in the final code just to ‘make sure, well it worked ....until months later when the system was under heavy use ... the funky bug returned.... the root cause of the funky bug was 1 wrong bit in a configuration register! I don’t know if 100 delay Benjamin’s would be enough! But flipping the bit fixed

Thank you so very much for this and for your channel!!!!

A job well done in any business gives a good feeling. Especially if it is ground breaking and opens up a lot of possibilities.

Excellent documentary :)

Informative and beautiful video to compare piano and computers.... data processing and compiling must be complex .and challenging involving those ASCII standards and logical gates and data base engineering

An art indeed. Very few people are obsessed with experiment and create a meaningful recipe with the existing ingredients..

that high from making something that works. i crave it so much!!!!! the down when youre on the way though can be so frustrating lol!

Wow, i was trying to edit fortran today. So cool, archaic, yet powerful.

I almost spit out my coffee when I heard "Fortran," for a minute I thought he said "4chan."

All these legends in this video! 😯

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.......👍 I love those people, they do amazing work, and thank you for this video 👍

So many great people

getting error is a part of programming so don't give up, just fall in love with it..

good, science of software using hardware to create code and number buildings, love it

Very interesting video, thx my friend

everyone can do programming , but how useful you find it to be , it remmains for you

I’m a deer in the headlights on the subject but great to see people who love their work. I’d love to learn more other than turning on my iPad and watching KZfaq but after watching this brief Stonemasonry looks so much easier in my head just my body hates it hahaha

This was so good. New sub!

7:07 Bogo Sort: *"ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF"*

Visual effects in your videos are just awesome. What program do you use by the way?

Reading code that makes me smile is a rare occurrence.

Though I know it's true from a logical sense, I don't like calling computers dumb but really a miraculous development.

Programming in assembler tedious? I think not! I still love it, 60 years on.

I've written in ASM, C, C++, Python, Common Lisp, Scheme, Racket, BASIC and LOGO. I do it as a recreational activity. I find that I prefer the Lisp family and Python most for their expressiveness. It is important to use the right tool for the job and stick with the tools that fit your hand best. Don't go chasing every new language and framework or you never learn any of them deeply. For a good source for recreational programming I'd highly suggest Alexander Dewdney's books. They may be old but they are written in a language agnostic psuedocode so you can try all the recreations in your native programming language.

I don't know when did I choose programming, now I know, I did a great job

I always say to my students and apprentices, programming is 50% technical and 50% art. You can't master programming computers without being technical AND artistical.

Love this analogy!

Always is intense thinking but rewarding after solving the problem in simple way.

I used to love the VIC20 and C64 when I was a kid. Now, I program PLCs for factory automation. I went to a decent college for electronics. Lot's of lab work. Good decisions. Also, computers aren't assholes to the degree that humans are. In the future, I hope to avoid dealing with humans altogether.

Im C# developer ( Games and Apps ) ...Im really proud to be programmer 😍

0:40: That computer program listing scrolling in the background at 0:40 is the most beautifully typeset program listing I’ve ever seen; does anyone know what software is used to typeset/print source listings like that?

Fantastic video! My wife would agree with me that this video blows away any classroom-based "education" people pay an arm and a leg for. I never attended a College/ University, but my wife spent 10 years researching what Academia is about, at every type of campus: making a mountain out of a molehill.

not so often can we hear about what it really means to program. Thanks for this work, overall good.

Great video.. deserves to be subscribe..

Excellent video

I love coding in Z80 assembler. Been doing it almost 30 years.

Fantastic, Thank you.

Immediately after watching this video, i opened up Unity for the first time in a week.

Great video!! I have a question I’m getting ready to self teach about programming. Before I take that leap is there anything anyone can suggest I learn or know or any other advice?? Thank you!!

I loved software, but I completely felt in love with this amazing video

3 cheers for all we IT people !!

What a great video! So inspirational. I see why I am studying CS without any passion for mathematics but I am forcing myself to understand. Thank you

That's a nice clip. It's a nice idea to make a comparison with music - everyone can imagine something with music and likes music. I

This video made me happy.

Art, that it is. Me being a musician i have a knack for code, only been learning a year and building my own distributed computing server. What about the software artists who practice a different form of art through software. Like digital music studio creators. Computers are so powerful. Amazing what the human mind can create.

I can't tell you how much I wish I could afford to buy Knuth's books.

great video for sure

Great quality I like it

Does anyone know what the music used in the video is? The piano pieces in particular.

Amazing !

Damn i was waiting for long for that C code to popup....

I love programming very much

Wow! Tnq so much sir

yeah It's very true... programming is An Art. And I love #Programming more than anything. Nothing is more Interesting than #Programming... :)

Wow such knowledge... Much power... I feel like a creator or a God after watching this vid... Amazing

I love ComputerHistory !!!

Jamie: "Computers are very very dumb". Google Assistant: "Say what?"

Algorithm "... which "doesnt mean saying now computer you do this " it means, thinking of a series of operations and a way of specifying those operations that will make the events occur that you want to occur - and that sounds so simple"

I program in a form of basic (Yabasic - playstation 2) as a hobby. But one thing that blows my mind is how does the order of 1's and 0's made to do the instructions that is machine language. Is assigned or is it all based on counting.

Proud to be a developer ❤. Any other developers here?

Love it!

software writing is an art indeed!!! they have the power to create anything!! :|