The homework:

Write your essay highlighting the following basic questions in it:

• Who are programmers,
• The profession of a programmer,
• What do programmers do
• What should have been learned (done) earlier in order to go, study and become a good programmer.
• Your thoughts on programmers and programming.

I think programmers are often people who like to create solutions to problems, they can think of ways of breaking down the issue to solve it in different ways.

In the UK, programmers are often associated with having a high salary. However, recently, because so many students decided, "well I want that too!", there are fewer vacancies for programmers. However, despite how competitive the job industry can be for programmers can be, many programmers sometimes just use their skills for themselves. I used to know a friend from university that would randomly create a program just to track the progress of their character building in games.

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Programmers have a wide range of tasks, and I'm sure some may specialise in something more than another. I know that there are various programming languages, like C++, JavaScript, Python, and HTML. Programmers use these languages (sometimes a mixture) to create various things. These things could be a website, some sort of software, or a database !

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When I was younger and thinking of a career path, I did want to get into programming. But unfortunately, in the UK to get a career in programming, you often need a really strong academic qualification to back it up, like a university degree. Then, to get that degree, you would need a high grade in the pre-university qualifications.
In the UK, the pre-university qualifications are called A-levels. Typically, a secondary student (about 17 or 18 years old) takes 3 A-level exams, and if you are aiming to be a programmer, you would aim to have Mathematics, Computer Science, and maybe Physics.
I mention Physics as it's one of the subjects that will really show off your maths skills haha.

Unfortunately for me, I have never been the best at maths. So I didn't take maths or physics as part of my pre-university exams. I did, however, do Computer Science. I wasn't the best but I really enjoyed it.

But universities that offer Computing degrees can be really competitive, and I just didn't meet the requirements.

If I could do it all again, I would probably have tried to do Maths and Physics as part of my A-levels in order to go and study to become a programmer. But I don't think I would have passed the exams haha.

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Just like the professor says, I feel like anyone can become a programmer. My maths is quite weak, but I think that you don't need math skills to program. I know a lot of people in the UK think that programmers must be really good at maths to get started, on top of that, a lot of academic courses for programming often have the requirement for you to have a certain high grade in your secondary school maths in order to take part in it. Programming is a way to communicate with a computer in order to create something, ranging from a game to just a program that will do mathematic calculations for you.

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An invite to participate

@artskills
@denmarkguy

I know that the deadline for this is tomorrow so I am not giving you enough time to write a post haha, but I would like to ask you to think about the questions in the homework 😅