It is wrong to say that "when you grow older, your skills and interest decreases". I disagree to your statement. When you become older, the more experience, skilled, advance and more knowledgeable you are. A philosopher (I forgot his name) once said that "the more you know, the more you don't know", meaning a person will not stop learning even he/she learned the basics. By nature a human being is hungry for knowledge and always ask a question. There are still things in this world that needs to be explored. In programming let say, Visual Basic, it started as version 1 until version 6 and now there is .NET. In .NET, it has 2002 version, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2010 and continuing, and the same as the other languages.
Technology is fast pacing. We have to cope up the trend of the technology because if you don't, you will be left behind.
The more you become lazy, the more your skills and interest decreases. We should grow, we should go beyond our limits, do not stay in your comfort zones.
With regards to being programmer, you should not stick to that position til you grow older, you might become a System Analysts or become a Project Manager or an owner of a certain solution company. Some venture on the next level of being a programmer meaning you develop a programming language to answer all the glitches and problems of a certain language. There's still a wide opportunity in the programming world, there's no such thing a perfect system being develop by a human being.
Lastly, it should not be a warning, it should be an eye opener. Let's be positive and think out of the box!
Don't be too lazy to learn.
adapt kas new environment.. new tech adopt and study it.
hahaayyyyy, makahinoktok mn pd ko ani oi.
Mao nay gi ingon nga if you got 5yrs exp in one programming language, you already lost the battle. Kay it's a waste of time trying to master one programming language and yet "the market" demands you to study all of 'em just so you can fill the requirements. Don't go out of your comfort zone. Study whenever its possible, read whenever its possible and research whenever it possible. Mura ra gud nag "kuan" sir, find the G-spot today and tomorrow you'll forget where it was.Just my 2 cents.
Last edited by istoryaaah; 07-11-2011 at 02:39 PM.
I guess that's the challenge for programmers these days: to avoid becoming obsolete.
Personally, I don't like the term programmer because it connotes merely programming - taking the specs, turning it into code, and eventually working software (with the help of major doses of caffeine). It takes a lot to separate the mere programmers from the developers and analysts - those who try to understand what they are actually doing, learn from it, analyze it, and make the most out of their experiences.
I may be wrong, but I think programming is quite easy. You don't need a degree to do it and there are now a lot of tutorials available online these days. If you manage to understand the whole development process, understand the logic of what you are doing instead of just memorizing syntax, then moving from one language to another shouldn't be too hard (it will still need your effort, of course). There are a lot of 'programmers' who are too dependent on the ease and comfort of IDEs but when they're asked to write some code on pen and paper, they balk.
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