{"id":845,"date":"2016-01-11T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2016-01-12T04:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:48:31","slug":"should-i-learn-to-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/should-i-learn-to-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Learn to Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cShould I learn to program?\u201d This question had been asked to me several times by my\u00a0fellow colleagues in my last organization. My answer was always \u201cYes\u201d. I strongly\u00a0recommend that an individual learn some programming languages in order\u00a0to survive in the modern competitive environment.<\/p>\n

With the advent of the IT boom, those days are gone when work used to be carried out by\u00a0typewriters or hand written documents. It has been reported by the U.S.<\/a> that IT jobs will grow\u00a0by 22% through 2020.\u00a0Now even the most basic jobs require the use of\u00a0computers. Computer literacy is essential for any person to find a job and along with it if by\u00a0chance a person is equipped in any programming language, like Java, HTML, C++, Python\u00a0etc, he or she can expect an exponential career growth.<\/p>\n

Computer technology has advanced rapidly and within the next few years it is going to take a\u00a0quantum leap. Nowadays, the number of jobs requiring \u2018technical literacy\u2019 is on the rise.\u00a0Such jobs require a person to be well versed in some or the other programming languages.<\/p>\n

Thus, if people know Java, HTML or any other programming languages getting into these\u00a0jobs become very easy for them.\u00a0One of my colleagues in my previous organization was well versed in Java. He was working\u00a0with us in an accounting process which was not relevant for an expert programmer like him.<\/p>\n

One day, a requirement arose on a different process for a Java programmer and he got\u00a0selected with a very high salary package. Thus, it can be very well seen that learning to program\u00a0does no harm, but in fact it opens doors to\u00a0several opportunities.<\/p>\n

Learning to program not only boosts a person\u2019s career but also improves his or her\u00a0problem solving and decision making skills. Apple\u2019s co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs had\u00a0empathized on learning to\u00a0program to be essential for mental development and quoted,\u00a0\u201cEverybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how\u00a0to think\u201d.<\/p>\n

Program coding is like playing chess, a person has to decide his code for a\u00a0particular program that he or she wants to implement by thinking logically. As a result, through programming, he or she develops sound mental abilities, which is\u00a0the basic requirement for any kind of job.<\/p>\n

Learning to program is always beneficial even\u00a0if a person does not choose programming as his or her career choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShould I learn to program?\u201d This question had been asked to me several times by my\u00a0fellow colleagues in my last organization. My answer was always \u201cYes\u201d. I strongly\u00a0recommend that an individual learn some programming languages in order\u00a0to survive in the modern competitive environment. With the advent of the IT boom, those days are gone when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}