Happy Programmer’s Day!
Posted by Jon Lee in Offtopic, tags: board-games, holiday, Programmers-Day, programming
Today was the 256th day of the year and programmers around the world recognize it as Programmer’s Day. Next to Pi day (March 14th) and Mole day (Oct. 23), this could very well be the nerdiest day of the year!
Unfortunately, it isn’t an officially recognized by many even though it should be since we programmers slave away day and night and day and night at the terminal — we deserve some recognition! Even the current Wikipedia article has been deleted after a little debate. Personally I’ve been “celebrating” Programmer’s Day for some time now ever since being told about it in first-year University.
Before the Wikipedia article was taken down, here’s an excerpt I got from it:
Traditions include: drinking, behaving silly, coding silly programs, mini computer games, playing with old computers, etc.
This year, I didn’t do any of the above… I simply took a break from programming and played a board game with some friends (Settlers of Catan — great game by the way).
It is interesting to note that 256 is chosen since it is represented by 2^8. 8 being the number of values representing a single byte of data. Since it is not a specific date but rather the 256th day, Programmer’s day falls on September 13th most year and September 12th during leap years.
How did you celebrate Programmer’s Day?
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