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Essay by Dominique GillyardDirectron Scholarship 2008 Essay No. 74by Dominique Gillyard Currently: Senior at Westfield High School in Westfield, NJ Intended College: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Intended Major(s): Bio medicine and the Manual was with the Programmer, and the Manual was the Programmer... The beginning: the beginning of humanity, the world, the universe. For centuries man has contemplated the miraculous mystery of our origin. However, there was no Big Bang, no evolution, no Intelligent Design, it was not even God who created our world. It was Him, the Programmer - the greatest software engineer that the world has ever known. In the depths of cyberspace and time He worked tirelessly in an attempt to expand on the programs that He created. His computer contained endless amounts of raw data that when processed provided enough information for Him to create with infinite possibility. Yet the Programmer's power did not lie within His computer, for far more important than this was His Computer Manual. It contained the instructions for how to make, access, and change any program in the universe; including our very own. Everything that we've ever known was coded in His image as a part of this program, just one of many that He designed. Yet ours was special. Never before had He created a program of such magnitude and intricacy. Never before had He harbored a stronger passion for a project, our project. This is our story. On the first day, the Programmer designed the strategy for His program. He wanted to create a system that would run and evolve on its own long after He was gone. This type of program function was unprecedented, and so He came up with millions of complex algorithms that detailed every aspect of the new program that He was designing. After several failed attempts, on the first day He came up with the perfect algorithm for His new program. On the second day, He chose the language in which to write His program. The Programmer needed to create a language that was compatible with the other programs on His computer, which were written in C, but He also wanted His language to allow the program to utilize a wider range of applications and work in several different environments. For this reason on the second day, He created the programming language C++. On the third day, the Programmer began to write the source code for the program. Into it, He encoded all of the information that exists in the world today. After first coding a large mass which He called Earth, He built in specific times at which the program would shut itself down automatically in order to maintain its proper function, and then refresh itself. We know these times as night and day. He then coded in the seas, the sky, the land and all of the creatures that would live in these places. His last task on this day was to code His greatest creation. Into the program on this day, He coded man. On the fourth day He ran his code through the compiler to simplify the high level programming language into machine code that His computer could understand. It was then turned into an executable file. On the fifth day, the Programmer ran His file through a debugger in order to check for any defects within His codes. After trouble shooting His program countless times He judged that His code was finished. Yet He did not remove all of the flaws within the code for He did not want His new program to work perfectly. Man had specific and unique defects that set him apart from all of the Programmer's other creations. He believed that it would be these flaws that would drive the program to work harder to remove these defects and advance to a level that no other program had ever reached. On the sixth day, the code was passed through an interpreter that would run His code and execute His program. It also checked His lines of code one by one to ensure that his program worked exactly as He wanted it to. Once he was sure of this, His source code was translated into an object code and the program was completed. It was on this day that He named his program: HUMANITY, and He added the instructions for HUMANITY into the Computer Manual. On the seventh day, the Programmer rested and judged HUMANITY. He saw the great potential within the program, and had great expectations for its future. On this day He declared that it was good, and that it was done. Yet even after He created HUMANITY there were still more worlds to create, and more cyberspace to fill with His creations. With this in mind the Programmer moved on, and HUMANITY ran constantly within His computer just where He left it until the day that He decided that He would come back to view the status of His program. To this very day, we unknowingly continue to run as instrumental pieces within the program. The Programmer left so long ago and HUMANITY has aged so much that we've forgotten its existence. Moreover, the great expectations that the Programmer once had for us have been long forgotten as well. Those distinguishing flaws that He once found so endearing within the code for HUMANITY did not correct themselves as He thought they would, but they instead triggered even greater flaws within the system. There were macro viruses that destroyed entire files; these were our wars. There were Trojan viruses that appeared harmless, yet they ruined parts of the program. This created much of the corruption that we find within our world today. Still, these errors were not enough to stop the program for good. As a program we continue to grow and advance daily and our abilities are endlessly expanding. Although there will always be errors within our codes, HUMANITY will endure the test of time and indefinitely run as a part of the greatest computer ever in existence. 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