Computer Programming Career is Never Dead

Many intelligent students love to program computers. And they have the highest probability to become computer programmers by career in future. Students are nowadays introduced to computers right in their school days. This has its obvious benefit to make students realize their programming aptitude before they have to risk choosing it as their career option. 

What It Takes to Become a Computer Programmer

I have seen many good computer programmers who really liked to write programs right from the young days. They have some kind of spontaneous drive to write programs for computers. 

Thus it is really hard to realize what exactly is needed to become a good programmer. One thing I would emphasize most at first, and that is what we can call love or aptitude for writing computer programs. With this another virtue almost comes in as an integrated package, and that is Mathematical aptitude. I have seen that good computer programmers also like to solve mathematical problems.

And actually, if you cannot solve mathematical problems then most naturally you cannot solve computer programming problems also. Thus they almost come in hand on hand to you. All the algorithms and complex logical structures in computer programming languages are backed by mathematics directly or indirectly. 

Exactly this is the reason why I always advise any aspiring computer programmer to build his fundamentals on the firmaments of Mathematics and related domains like Statistics and numerical applications. 

Is It Good To Have Computer Programming Aptitude

The IT world has seen many recessions and depressions in its relatively small span of lifetime. There were so many cases of slowdowns resulting in both company closures as well as individual layoffs. There were phases when people used to be scared of computer programming careers, all started to avoid it. Seats in computer science and technology at even prestigious colleges and universities used to remain only partially filled. 

But those days were not forever. It used to be just a matter of time, things were seen to recover again and again. Nothing recovers better from a recession or slowdown than the sectors of IT (Information Technology) and computer science. But is this so?

What Makes Computer Programming Earthly Evergreen?

Since the development of computers and evolution of its programming languages, the extent of their applications have never seen any decrease. As days pass by, we see even more applications of computer and relevant accessory technologies than we used to see yesterday. Even the trend of this seems to be never exhausting, at least in the future few centuries, as it can be assumed based on current data and extrapolations.

Thus most naturally computer programming can be considered one of the most stable activities a person can do as a profession or else. More is the number of computers and applications there will be, more prospective will be the career, business and any profession in and around the domain of computer programming and its applications. And exactly this is the reason behind I said computer programming as evergreen, rather to be more perfect I will call it evergreen henceforth. Henceforth because computers are not with us for too long a period of time, but will be with us for an amazingly extended period of time. 

Can anyone imagine a world without computers henceforth? From medical to education applications and financial everything, even relationships and friendships are so much computerized now. Can anyone visualize anything reverse to happen with computers? I see only one possibility and that is more computers in every aspect of our life and work. If that is the case then what can be the reason for the downfall of computer programming as a career or professional option? 

This you can say is my main philosophical reason behind saying that computers and its programming are henceforth evergreen on this planet. If you have to use computers then someone has to have them programmed for your purpose. That is exactly what the computer programmers do. So your need, the whole worlds’ need will eventually keep those computer programmers alive and engaged. 

Are There No Worries for Computer Programmers?

This is a very important question whose answer is perhaps unknown. No one can verdict anything with certainty. Some things can already be predicted, but those together are too far away from painting a complete picture. I can see one thing that can worry computer programmers. There can be many more, but this one is easier to predict and a tougher problem to deal with. Let us discuss it a bit for good.

This age is driving towards automation, a real unusual and sometimes worrisome automation. Actually now we have the knowhow and technology for automation does not necessarily mean or imply that we need to find its application in every dimension of human affairs. That itself is a very dangerous proposition and we can wait for the resulting menace within a few decades to come. Actually every application of technology has a question of ethics tagged with it. And it is not that we are too happy to adhere to those tags unless we are forced to do so somehow. 

Perhaps the base ethics of computer science and technology and its applications in our lives is to remember and practice the fact that computers are for humans and humans are not for computers. Forgetting this base during any invention,  implementation and application of very advanced technologies like automaton can become similar to an act of suicide for the mankind. 

Alike in many other areas, automation is creating an unbelievably great impact in the realm of computer programming also. And I am not much sure that all the impacts are and have to be positive for people or mankind as a whole. Still impacts are there and will continue to be there.  

Now computers are also writing programs, directly or indirectly. Automation in source code development is becoming a mandatory strategy for software companies in order to cut time and human resource engagements. Usually computers can write source codes and programs for different purposes usually not so complex. This had a great impact in programming industries, especially in employment options. Now a company can run with fewer employees. 

In that regard you may think that computer programming and relevant jobs are getting obsolete. Not exactly, just the forms and processes changed but the employment opportunities are still there. Good programmers are still much required and who else is going to write programs for computers under continuously changing faces of human needs and wants. Computers cannot get that much humane….!