Why Should You Learn to Program? - Information Space

I really wish more people would program. For IT managers at USAA, I see 400 resumes a week for a single position, but for experienced programmers, I see about 3 resumes for 20 positions, and this is for a place with one of the highest workplace satisfaction ratings among IT shops in the country. I suppose I was lucky that this is the case, I joined USAA with a German degree and had never coded anything but they taught me to code. On our team of 8, only two guys have a computer science degree, and one guy is completely self taught. Learning to code is especially good for veterans because we have much more experience with detailed procedures and discipline than our civilian counterparts, plus the pay and benefits are great for programmers. I like the connection between programming and musical instruments in this article. If you can learn a musical instrument, you can learn to code.

Good article. The IT industry is the only industry that cannot be replaced by machinery because you need the human elements to detects thing when s**t hits the fans with the networks. Computers are as smart as human telling it what to do. Best of all is that IT is the industry that is biggest in demand in the job market depending on what field you're going into.

SGT (Join to see) That was an interesting article. I was not sure at all where he was going with the lemonade thing, but he makes a great point about not knowing what you don't know until you know what you didn't know. He makes a very good point about understanding how programs work and interact with hardware, especially in this day and age where even a refrigerator could be connected to the internet.