Age of Ideas


‘Doing things that matter’- that’s what Seth Goddin tries to impress on all of us.
Nowadays, all the buzz is about ingenuity and creativity. Every time we read or listen to the news, we hear about a new product or a new technology in the market, solving a problem in our society using technology and innovation, designing solutions to make our lives better.
Not only it’s important to come up with new ideas, but also to do so at the right time. Victor Hugo stated it best: “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
The first computer was arguably first invented in 1822 by Charles Babbage. He conceptualized and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results.  However, a personal computer became mainstream and affordable for the common folk in the 1970s due to the mass production of the microprocessor starting in 1971.
Nowadays computers have become a necessity.  Not only a using a computer, programming a computer have become main stream. 
The time has come to embrace learning to program to come up with the next innovative solution to a known or unknown problem, building the next big thing! 


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