Monday, May 16, 2016

15 Movies For Programmers

Programming have been used in movies. And there are also some movies that they even help understand some programming concepts. The following are  list of top movies for programming funs.

1. The Matrix(1999)
This movie is revolutionary. The end of one civilization is the start of another. There are some movies that are similar like this one later.



2. Loopers(2012)
If life runs into an endless loop, how to break the loop?


3. Hackers (1995) 
A teenage hacker finds himself framed for the theft of millions of dollars from a major corporation. Master hacker Dade Murphy, aka Zero Cool, aka Crash Override, has been banned from touching a keyboard for seven years after crashing over 1,500 Wall Street computers at the age of 11.

3. Tron: Legacy(2010)
Many computer scientists of a certain age would agree that this movie kind of lead them into computing(or War Games).


4. Next(2007)
This movie uses the concept of recursion , The movie aboutBlessed, or cursed, with the ability to see events minutes before they occur, Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) earns a living as a magician in Las Vegas and keeps a low profile under an alias. When terrorists threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon in Las Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) goes on the hunt for Cris and hopes to convince him to help her stop the coming apocalypse.


6. Inception(2010)
Like concept of recursion in programming , the movie about thief with the rare ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage but has also cost him everything he loves.



7. Cloud Atlas(2012)
Like concept of Parallelism in programming , the moive story about Actors (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent) take on multiple roles in an epic that spans five centuries. An attorney harbors a fleeing slave on a voyage from the Pacific Islands in 1849; a poor composer in pre-World War II Britain struggles to finish his magnum opus before a past act catches up.



8. Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
The accomplishments of visionaries Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall) revolutionize the 20th century.





9. The Social Network (2010)
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, he is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but Zuckerberg finds that his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend (Andrew Garfield). Based on the book "The Accidental Billionaires."

10. Gamer (2007)
Each week Kable (Gerard Butler), a death-row inmate, battles his fellow prisoners in a violent online game called "Slayers," his every move controlled by a young gamer's remote device. To the players, Kable and the other inmates are just simulated characters. But, to a resistance group that opposes the game's inventor, Kable is a critical component of their plan to end the inventor's form of high-tech slavery.




11. The machine (2013)
Two scientists fall in love while they are creating the world's first self-aware artificial intelligence. The work goes terribly wrong when the British military steals their technology to make a robotic weapon.




12. Swordfish (2001)
Swordfish is a 2001 American action crime thriller film which revolves around an ex-con and a computer hacker who gets targeted and involved in a bank robbery because of his hacking skills.



13. Algorithm (2014)
Algorithm is a 2014 Drama-Thriller film which revolves around a freelance computer hacker who discovers and breaks into a mysterious government computer is thrust into a revolution.



14. Enemy of the State (1998)
Enemy of the State is a 1998 American spy-thriller film which revolves around conspiracy of a group of U.S. National Security Agency agents who kill U.S. Congressman and the cover up that ensues after a tape of the murder is discovered.



15. Firewall (2006)
Firewall is a 2006 American-Australian crime thriller film in which a security specialist is forced into robbing a bank that he’s been protecting in return for his families safety.



Enjoy and waiting for your comments ;) .

Share this

3 Responses to "15 Movies For Programmers"