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I missed something somewhere?
My background is computers. I started with cobol and fortran and have worked with them for many many years.
now I have a grandson that has been on the computer since he was 5 years old. he is going to college for computer programming, I thought. I was looking at his books and classes and this is operating not programming This is using programs that someone else has created. He can do that, hey we all do that and he has been doing in for years. surely he knows this doesn't he? and how can a college offer a programing course and only teach operating. Did I miss something along the way when the computer language changed to basic? I thought programming was creating new programs for the operator to use. Am I wrong?
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- Vincent GLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Since computers are everywhere, there are more people involved (officially) with them, but the same % of people overall is actually doing the real programming.
And quite honestly, perhaps this is to be expected. The average program was written by people who should NOT be programming.
Now, many codes are generated by packages. That is not programming, although they call it that.
You did not miss anything, THEY are.
