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Hello World - A history
Is it really simple, under the hood?

"What the hell is going on here?" - asked myself when I saw how the teacher created and showed up a black screen with a text of "hello world" in my first day learning programming. I was there with the dream of becoming an opponent of Google, for creating massive web and mobile applications that one day I could beat them, or else, buy them. For a while feeling heavy-hearted, I realized that I had missed something important which my teacher told us before I came into the class (yes, I was late). Then we practiced with some very first problems like making simple operations, input someone's name and then output "hello <them>",... I asked Google about "hello world" right after school because I knew that I had missed the most important thing of the starter pack to be a good programmer. ------------- At first glance, it is supposed to be the most famous program and the first example of every programming language. This program tells the ...