Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...
When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met while waiting in the registration line on their first day of graduate school at Princeton University in 1963, computer science was still a strange new world.
Another thing I want to mention is that Alan Turing was mathematician and manual starts with math language and full of it. Modern (for last 30-40 years at least) way to write about programming is way ...