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Career Research Thomas Lane
programmer
Programmers are the people who make apps and
everything computer based work.
“The purpose of programming is to automate processes.”“The practice of programming is one of teaching the computer to do something.”
• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zKYxD1jfgdwJ:c2.com/cgi/wiki%3FPurposeOfProgramming+what+is+the+pointof+programming&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
Education requirements
You don’t need a college degree to be a programmer but it is helpful to have one.
University of Texas-Austin Carnegie Mellon University
University of California—BerkeleyStanford UniversityPrinceton University
Tuition costs • $9,790 instate and $34,722 out of state
yearly for austin
• 46,670 for carnegie
• The salary could be between $35,597 and $83,018
• strong demand
• flexible hours
• mobility to move around the industry.
“Computer technology advances at a fast rate, keeping the demand for computer programmers at a high level.”
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-being-computer-programmer-38637.html
I want to pursue this career because I really like programming and finding out new things in what i am using to program.
Upsides/Downsides
• Programming gives you a lot of free time.
• Get paid well.
• You will spend a lot of time trying to figure out why one thing stopped working.
• need to keep putting out new things.
• http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-being-a-computer-programmer
• http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-programming-rankings
• http://www.utexas.edu/tuition/costs.html
• http://www.cmu.edu/hub/tuition/1314-undergraduate.html
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