20 Bill Gates said, “Only a small percentage of the population has the mental abilities to do higher level programming.” What’s the “higher level programming” he was talking about?

21 Is it true that C can go as low-level as assembly by using pointers to directly access memory mapped hardware?

22 Why do people think Python is easy?

23 Who are some millionaires who still write computer code?

24 What is the scariest code you have ever seen?

25 Did you know that C++ is statistically almost twice slower than C because it needs additional code to handle exceptions, dynamic pointers and classes?

26 My C++ teacher, who seems crazy old school, won't let us use the string datatype in C++, but instead makes us use the character array datatype from C. He says the strings in C++ are "just not good". Is there any truth to what he is saying?

27 Is C++ fast?

28 Why do programmers love ultra-wide monitors instead of 16:9?

29 Is it possible to write large and complex C programs without using malloc()?

30 What are the five most important programming concepts?

31 What skills do self-taught programmers commonly lack? What should a self-taught programmer study to get up to speed with his/her formally-educated peers?

32 How can I learn Java fast?

33 Why does the computer understand only ones and zeros?

34 What is the most magical and mesmerizing code you have ever seen?

35 Who is the most talented computer coder in history and why?

36 Now that anyone can learn to code, will it become less lucrative?

37 How many lines of code was Pong?

38 Why was Python written in C instead of C++?

39 Is Java losing its popularity? If yes, why?

40 What is some badly-written code you wrote when you were beginning to learn programming?

41 Why do developers like Linux so much?

42 Why do so many young freelancers want to use unreliable languages like Python instead of good ones like C# or Java?

43 Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?

44 My son wants to be a programmer and just keeps on coding all day, what should I do?

45 What's the most ignorant thing you've heard a software developer say that made you wonder how they are a programmer?

46 What does this Java code do?

47 How bad is the "Everyone Can Code Movement"? I've heard that it's going to bring down wages and increase competition to an already crowded market. Is making a startup the only way to go? Is there any good news from this?

48 Why didn't Microsoft get sued for plagiarising Java when they made C#?

49 Is programming all about copy-pasting these days?

50 Was Rust written in C/C++?

51 What are the key features and benefits of the Java programming language?

52 As a software engineer, what do you hate about the industry?

53 Why should I choose PHP as a full-stack developer?

54 If all programming was done in binary code (without any use of translators), how much faster could a computer possibly be?

55 Is it a must to have an OS installed in order to run a programming language and execute code?

56 Why do so many veteran software engineers consider Vim to be the best text editor?

57 What do programmers generally do all day at work?

58 How do you multi-thread in C++?

59 As a C++ programmer, do you feel so superior to other programmers who use higher level languages like Java?

60 What’s the hardest language to write "Hello World" in?

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