STARTING PROGRAMMING 002: Why You Learn To Program In 2020

This is a continuation of STARTING PROGRAMMING 001 where we talk about some introduction into this series.
So let us look at the reasons why you may want to learn how to program.
Actually, there are many reasons why people learn or dabble with programming. We will look at three reasons why programming may be of benefit to you;

- CAREER: 
The most frequent reason why people learn programming is because of the need to build this widely used and usable, scalable skill called programming. Programming is in every field of endeavour under the sun moon and stars. Name any field of human endeavour and I can tell you how programming affects or can affect it. I even watched somewhere that some monasteries give their monks tabs! Because of this ubiquity of programming, learning it has become a veritable way to launch into a valuable career path or perhaps even switch careers from a boring or not-so-well-paying one to a more fulfilling one.

 Truth is that programming will involve constant learning and challenge to do new things and there are countless other languages or related technologies that are always available for you to learn if you believe that the programming language you began with is no longer serving you well. As I wrote previously, once you learn the fundamentals, you are good to go.
Finding a job may not be what you want. Maybe you have the next big app idea or you want to develop a site for your e-commerce or portfolio and do not have 100s of dollars to pay.

- MANAGEMENT:
You may want to learn to program because you manage people who programme. Maybe you have the fund to start up a business but you want others to handle the coding aspect while you do what CEOs do. You may be in a managerial position in the company you work with and have programmers reporting to you and you do not want to be lost in the sea of jargons at meetings so you want to learn at least the fundamentals.

HOBBY:
You may have been hearing about programming and have been seeing the programmers doing technical magic in movies and you are here to challenge yourself to gain new knowledge.
You may even live with, be in a relationship with, be inspired by someone who is a programmer and you just want to learn what they really do so that you can better align yourself with them.

Whichever the reason, you are welcome to the amazing world of programming. If you approach this with an open mind and a child-like mind you will enjoy yourself. Not to say that it is easy and all but hey, you did not always know how to walk or surf the internet. Look at you now!