Programming
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you don't necessarily need to learn "programming" to be a developer. Someone mentioned Ruby - it's a good call, but I would encourage you to learn a framework such as Rails (which is built with ruby). It'll enable you build things quickly without having to learn Ruby from the ground up. It'll instil in you a good understanding of OOP (which I can't express the importance of enough). All the while you'll be exposed to Ruby, and when you get to the point you need to extend the arm of a decent framework, then you'll be better placed to really study the underlying language.
Given the leaps and bounds of development frameworks, you may never need to learn the underlying language. Just like you don't control your PC or Mac via the command line - the application does it all for you.
- 99% of everything you'll want to do has already been "programmed". Why would you bother?********
- 99% of everything you'll want to do has already been "programmed". Why would you bother?