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WhyPrograming

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 8 months ago

Why to get interested in programming?

You already are interested to become a programmer - otherwise you would not be reading this page. :-)

But still why to get into it? What will be the rewards? Programmers live to solve problems. For a hacker, the best reward is the knowledge and feeling you get when you solve complicated problem on computer. Hacker is not cracker - (cracker creates problems, hackers solves them) - but popular media hopelessly mixed these terms together, and most likely original meaning of "hacker" is lost.

Programming is interesting job:

it is not boring, you get to solve new problems most of the time (and if you repeatedly solve same problem, why not you write a program to solve it for you?)
It is interesting: often you work on cutting edge of technology (as close as you dare), solving important problems.
It is hard, but well paid job. With bid portion of luck, you may start a startup and get filthy rich by your 30th birthday.
Even if not filthy rich, you may need to use computers daily to solve small problems (and make you slowly, but cleanly rich). :-)