Moon machines
So far this has been one of my favourite video I have seen about software engineering, the feeling it produced on me was one of the reasons I started my undergraduate in computer science. I did not know that MIT university developed the guidance software for Apollo missions. Now it makes sense for me why MIT is such a good university at engineerings like computer science.
In the video, one of the main problems that they encountered was the memory space they had for the software, little lady method helped to solve this problem, it was simple but very slowly to make, especially because it was hand made, and it needed to wire all the program through zeros and one. If for some reason it had an issue in the wiring process, redoing it was a nightmare for the women in charge.
Another aspect that surprised me was the reduction of the computer itself. It passed from a rack style to a small fridge size, that was a huge step in technology when Apollo 11 was landing in the moon it popped up an error 1202, and the frightening thing is that no one recalled that kind of error, until a wise man rosed his hand to helped them. He had written all the possible error it might pop up in the console. For me, that's a life lesson.
When they said that a 22 years old finished writing the program that would help to land on the moon it made me happy, for me that's motivation if he could do it back then, so can I. For these and more reasons I liked the video, it taught me so much, this is feeling it made me feel is one of the many reasons I love my major.
In the video, one of the main problems that they encountered was the memory space they had for the software, little lady method helped to solve this problem, it was simple but very slowly to make, especially because it was hand made, and it needed to wire all the program through zeros and one. If for some reason it had an issue in the wiring process, redoing it was a nightmare for the women in charge.
Another aspect that surprised me was the reduction of the computer itself. It passed from a rack style to a small fridge size, that was a huge step in technology when Apollo 11 was landing in the moon it popped up an error 1202, and the frightening thing is that no one recalled that kind of error, until a wise man rosed his hand to helped them. He had written all the possible error it might pop up in the console. For me, that's a life lesson.
When they said that a 22 years old finished writing the program that would help to land on the moon it made me happy, for me that's motivation if he could do it back then, so can I. For these and more reasons I liked the video, it taught me so much, this is feeling it made me feel is one of the many reasons I love my major.
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