They missed embedded systems programming - writing software to control physical or electrical devices or calculate measurements from sensory apparatus. This would include PLC programming, microcontrollers, motion controllers, kinematics, control theory and so on. This area of software has features which are somewhat distinctive from the other types mentioned. Increasingly embedded systems are everywhere, not only in mobile phones, and there are multiple such systems in modern road vehicles.
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#12"You can use any simple database package to do this, such as MS access, DB V, Fox Pro..."
Written before most of us were born.
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#13What a terrific article! I found a video on how to play the flute, split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, and how to irrigate the Sahara desert and create vast areas of viable farmland, and finally how to cure all known diseases.
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#14Oh wikiHow, where would we be without you? http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-a-Great-Tasting-Steak
I noticed this gem in the "Programming Scientists" section:
"Putting worcestershire sauce on volume 1 of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming and stabbing it with a fork until pudding-like."