The Significance of programming

Today’s internet world is nothing without programming. Software, the brain and the mind of computers, run through programming. The oldest programming language was invented back in 1956 (it was invented in 1954 but first manual appeared in 1956), and was called FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation).

Today, we have many programming languages all around the globe, like C, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, and many others. All of these individual programming languages have their own unique use and function. Interesting and entertaining games, on all sorts of devices, are created using these programming languages. Any digital game that you think of, is only possible when someone codes it into the computer and makes it something playable with logical operations.

Mathematics is a very big part of programming. If you go and ask a software engineer, about how the computers work with mathematics, you will be surprised how much they will tell you they are interrelated.

Computers can understand only one language—the binary language. It is a language built of 0s and 1s. For instance, the binary code for the letter “A” (capital or uppercase A) is “01000001”. But the code for the small letter “a” is different and is “01000010”. As you can see, they are only built of the number 0 and the number 1.

But, when we learn the programming languages, we don’t learn about the binary language, or do we? We don’t have to code in binary for the computer to understand. We have to make a logical code in the programming language which makes sense in our mathematical logical operations. There is an in-built translator in our computer which translates this code into the binary code for the computer to understand.

How is programming important and beneficial? Well, if you are a programmer, you can create things for people which will help them in their daily life. After all, learning a programming language is like learning a human language, which we speak, and most importantly, teach other people to do things. Similarly, a programming language is helpful in inventing something new. Let’s take a very renowned example to make this clear. Google, we all have used google haven’t we? Have you imagined if google, or for that matter other search engines like google wouldn’t exist, then how hard it would have been for us students, or even a normal human being. We just look up anything we don’t know about on Google, then how tedious and difficult it would be without it. If you don’t understand, you can go and ask someone who has studied a few decades earlier and how hard it was for them.

Programming is helpful for everyone, and everyone should at least put it into consideration to learn how to program things and create applications, even from the most basic programming. Why I am saying this is because the programming that you are going to learn is going to be helpful in many aspects. Like for example this blog. I learnt HTML when I was in the 7^th grade & the 8^th grade. Now that HTML helped me to understand how the various different code elements of this blog, work on a browser. If I hadn’t learnt even the little HTML that I know, I would have been in lots of trouble and would face a lot of issues regarding customization of my blog.

Same is true for any other person who owns some online media. He should have atleast some knowledge about the most important aspects of the programming language and how it works. This will aid him to understand how his code elements work in his website, or blog.

As our world is progressing, there are various job opportunities opening as a programmer. This is because many companies, or even governmental associations need support of programmers to connect with the world and the internet. So, learning programming would always be beneficial in the future, if put to the right use.