10 Weird Things Only Programmers Will Understand [Part 2]

As you read earlier in Part 1, I would love to share more about what I felt after staying in touch with Programmers! The facts will blow up your mind for sure.

N°6: Upside Down Tree

If you are not a programmer, you would never know that there is a tree in which the root is not under but at the top of the tree as weird it sounds, it exists in the programming field.

In short, tree graphs are drawn top-bottom because we write in that direction. Early days, when writing articles and calculations by hand, it was preferred to do drawings and graphs top-down, not worrying how much area they might take.

Otherwise, they collapse with lines above them, especially graphs that were means of calculation and partially unpredictable in length.

So yes, the root is at the top of the tree.

N°7: CTRL+Y (Redo) and CTRL+Z (Undo) will reduce work efforts

Ctrl + Y and Ctrl + Z make programmers feel safe.

Antivirus in windows sure is good. But when you write code and mistakenly delete the last line or some more lines, that’s when comes the lifesaver Ctrl+Y and Ctrl +z or in mac (command+Y) and (command +Z).

N°8: Formatting hard-drive will erase your all data [What a myth it is!]

In your childhood, you may heard about formatting your PC, and you pre-assume that, it will erase your all data, files and important work from your PC! But that's not true!

Let me put some light on this topic for you!

You can spend hours going through your hard drive and deleting all the files and documents you want, but using the delete key on your keyboard in Windows will only remove the shortcuts to the files making them invisible to users.

Deleted files still reside on the hard drive, and a quick Google search will show many options for system recovery software that will allow anyone to reinstate that data.

Formatting a disk does not erase the data on the disk, only the address tables. A computer specialist would be able to recover most or all the data that was on the disk before the reformat.

Bad for crime movies, where all information gets destroyed by breaking or deleting the hard drive. Right?

N°9: Mbps vs MBps

Mbps stands for Megabits per second.

MBps stands for Megabytes per second.

1 megabit denotes 1,000,000 bits, and 1 megabyte denotes 1,000,000 bytes.

Mbps is used to specify Internet connection speeds, whereas MBps is used to specify how much of a file is downloaded/uploaded per second.

So next time, don’t get confused.

N°10: The power of a semicolon ';'

Last but not least, if you are not a programmer, you might rarely use semicolons and would never understand what a semicolon means to a programmer.

Most nights, they get nightmares at night just because they missed some semicolon at night and couldn’t figure it out, which eventually gets solved in the morning but again, for another missing semicolon, the nightmare pass through the next night.

Yeah, that’s the power of semicolons. You might wonder that if a semicolon is that important, why would anyone miss that? Well, when you have written thousands of lines of code, how are you going to notice that one tiny semicolon is missing in that huge ocean?

If you want to share any of the weird incidents that happened in your life related to programmers, please feel free to drop your thoughts in the below comment section!

Originally published in "Only Programmer's Things"

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