Did you know that the earliest computer programmers were women and that the programming field was once stereotyped as female?

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What interested Schneider, a full-truckload carrier, was Powell's work in the field of approximate dynamic programming, which is a way to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty.

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There are a lot of ways you can field test your concept early on before programming anything.

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In the film, Zuckerberg, Newell and others talk about their first programming experiences and why the got into the field.

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