There has to be a reason as to why everyone from Barack Obama, Elon Musk to Jack Ma are encouraging people to learn how to code.
What is Coding:
Coding is a way of communicating with the computers using different languages which are then converted/translated in a language that computers understand consisting of 0’s and 1’s.
So if you want to know why you should learn to code, you’ve come to the right place.
Coding is for everyone and anyone:
If you are a person with a knack of solving problems or feel like your analytical then you can try out Back End Development which consists of handling data, algorithms and optimising them.
If you are a creative person then Front End Development and UI/UX is just the thing for you which is just designing websites, mobile apps and video games.
Also if you just want to have the best of both worlds, you can become a Full Stack Developer!
The Next million Dollar App Idea:
We have all heard countless stories about how one person had a life changing idea, made an app, got millions of downloads and sold his startup for quite a lot. Well guess what you can do it too now, one can go from fantasizing about their million dollar app idea to actually developing it.
Save Time:
You can save quite a lot of time which was spent doing everyday tasks like checking your email, making coffee and even scheduling meetings.
If you are a person like me, always looking for new challenging skills then coding might interest you because it is endless. There are many programming languages and if you don't want to switch languages then there are multiple frameworks based on one language.
Programming adds a new perspective to life which enables you to think differently and come up with brilliant ideas. It makes you stand out; also it never hurts to flex your programming skills in front of friends!
The computing profession growing fast and provides one with job security for at least another century; if you want to earn an extra few bucks then you can try freelancing.
For College Applications, a programming background and your coding portfolio definitely helps-especially if your applying for a CS degree. Contrary to popular belief, we programmers socialise a lot through different activities and contests like Code JAMs and Game JAMs.
Bring a change in the society
If you want to impact people’s life in a positive way you can create life saving AI.
For example a programmer built an AI for scanning products as they are kept in front of a camera rather than having to stand in a long checkout line at the grocery store; A doctor tweaked the same code and this enabled the AI to detect cancer cells (Read more).
Type really really fast: Programming is basically typing 80% of the time so you tend to start typing really really fast, this might even help you in writing mails, applications, essays etc very fast.
Programming MEMES: Who doesn't like good memes? If you know how coding works you may even understand those geeky memes like:
If you don't understand recursion, read this line again.Stay at 127.0.0.1; Wear a 255.255.255.0 (Covid Meme);if(!hungry) Sleep(); else Eat();I would like to conclude by saying that coding is a new skill for many, it's a new area which we can and should try to explore. We never know how programming is like, until we try!
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