October 06, 2003
What do computer programmers do?
{ an open letter to all their Mom's }
- Create floorplans with their mind.
- Learn and improve the ways businesses handle their numbers.
- Constantly learn new tools to do the above.
- Communicate clearly and think very abstractly.
- Get all the details right eventually.
- Think creatively.
- Think extremely pragmatically.
- Get paid decent money; don't have any company loyalty.
- Get to dress casually.
- Can be a little weird; argue easily about very, very little things.
- Get frustrated when things don't work, but ultimately love it and are therefore not truly motivated to ensure that everything is perfect.
- Some computer programmers, if they wanted to, could read your email, take down websites, go places they aren't supposed to, etc. but don't.
- Sometimes have bad posture and grunt when bothered while working.
- Like to read and drink stimulants.
- Can type really fast sometimes, while others peck with 2 fingers.
- Are good problem-solvers.
- Like eating interesting food.
- Overall have no sense of the history of their profession and therefore do not go read the classics like in many related professions.