What do you guys do with your programing skills?

Programming is my job AND my hobby --a hobby for much longer than a job. It IS pretty complicated, just like being able to play a guitar well is complicated. The difference between being a programmer and being a guitar player is that parents will be impressed by your guitar playing skills even if you're really not that good. A computer, however, will not run your program if the program's syntax is incorrect, and it will not produce the right results if the program's semantics aren't correct. A computer's judgment is objective, a parent's judgment typically is not.

You may call a computer pedantic, I see it as a combination of a 100% impartial jury and a 100% reliable employee: as long as the code I write is found to be correct by the jury, the employee will do it for me. My computer doesn't dislike me, it doesn't try to annoy me, it won't try to teach me a lesson. It's strict but fair.

Why do I do it? Because practically, my imagination IS the limit of what I can do with a computer. It's an extension of my mind. It allows me to be things I couldn't normally be. I'd love to teach, in the sense that I'd love to explain things to children (or other people in general). However, I would really suck at keeping a classroom full of kids in check, and motivated. So, in an earlier career I wrote educational software which allowed me to do what I love, without having to do the things I'd suck at.

I faint at the sight of a syringe, but currently I help develop software that help doctors keep people healthy. Can you think of ANY other job where one's skills can be useful in such a wide variety of areas?

it's kind of a puzzle. it's the same reason I enjoy doing a jigsaw puzzle. I enjoy fitting all the pieces into place and see the picture come out. I so far have worked in class (I'm a computer science major) and created websites for a few different people/groups such as my school. Basically any program that you ever use, any website, any feature or application on a computer or other similar system has been written by a programmer sometime and somewhere. All of google's features have been written by programmers. The system at the local grocer store has been written by programmers. Programming is not just HTML and other web languages. It's also Java and C which can work as programs on the computer. Your operating system was even built by programmers. I want to be able to create things that people can use. Make the next google (although this takes more ingenuity than the programming skills) and the next facebook. Make the next feature that will change the face of useabilty by people.

I recognize this sounds very widespread however all you have got to do is train. I take into account commencing my laptop publications and pondering "Oh yeah, you simply have got to do coding at college, dwelling time is me time." It seems, working towards your programming talents(I do it everyday) can reeeeally aid. You'll begin noticing syntax styles and approaches to fixing disorders. Also, it does not harm to learn up on on-line tutorials. Computer technology scholar's exceptional buddy is Google.