Everyone Should Learn Programming  Posted by Filip Ekberg on 04
Mar 2013  Over the years a lot of highly influential people have
dropped the phrase "Everyone Should Learn Programming" and
recently some very successful people in software companies made
a video called "What most schools don't teach". While this video
is spot on there seem to be a lot of confusion between learning
programming and pursuing programming as a profession.  Almost
everything today is built on micro-processors and use
electricity and basic knowledge about programming will give you
an idea of how complex some systems are. Everyone that works
professionally with programming knows that the customer never
really knows what it is they want and think they can just change
their minds in the middle of the project. How many of you have
heard the phrase "Can't you just move X? That shouldn't be too
hard."? This is born from a lack of understanding of how systems
are built. With basic programming knowledge it might be a lot
easier to explain comp