Film Documents Software Creation, the Fun Way

Linked by Eugenia Loli on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 00:20 UTC

When Lerone Wilson saw the ad for a director interested in doing a film on software development, he was skeptical, to say the least. Wilson's resulting "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks," the story of intern programmers at New York-based Fog Creek Software creating a product from scratch to shipping, is now finished, one of the first films to delve wholly into the life and culture of coding.

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This could be interesting..

by Cyberbear on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 01:12 UTC

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2005-06-29

Without actually seeing the film I cannot comment on its content. But it looks like it could be an interesting film to watch, and to show to students.

It could also be of some historical significance since methods of software development will surely change in the future.

It could find a place in the tech culture just as "Revolution OS" has.

I hope that Fog Creek has dispersed some of the proceeds to the interns as a bonus for a job well done.

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The movie

by BigZaphod on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 02:18 UTC

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2005-07-06

Here's the actual movie site:
http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/

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program

by Anonymous on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 02:37 UTC

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I design hardware and write firmware.

I can't imagine this movie being fun to watch as it can't be too different from my day at work.

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RE: program

by Beryllium on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 07:06 UTC in reply to "program"

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2005-07-08

But you know how goofy things get after a 16-hour coding/design session? That could make for an entertaining film. Harold & Kumar Go To Whitecastle II.

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by CodeMonkey on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 20:06 UTC in reply to "program"

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2005-09-22

Well, they are interns you know. Interns tend to have more fun than the full time guys. I know that's what it was like when I was an intern at Intel. We always had way more fun even while at work than the regular full timers.

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Interesting Genre

by Celerate on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 07:09 UTC

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2005-06-29

These kinds of movies always interest me, anonymous above seems to think they would remind him of work, but I'm don't do programming as a job yet so maybe these movies are targetted more at people like me :-) .

I thought "Pirates of Sillicon Valley" was pretty good, unfortunately "Revolution OS" isn't at any of the local rental places so I couldn't watch that one.

As odd that this genre of movie is to some people I enjoy them very much, it's a good way to help students/aspiring programmers what the work field is like. I hope this movie will be in the local rental store.

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by Kroc on Sat 3rd Dec 2005 14:52 UTC