Question by DrummerJ: Question to Computer Programmers!?
Hello Computer Programmers! I’m 14 and only in grade 9 (first year of high school) and when I go to Univeristy around 18-19 years old when I complete High school taking Academic Courses, I really want to become a Computer Programmer. I have two questions:

1. What courses did YOU (a computer programmer) take while in College/University? What did you major in? There are SOOOOOOO many courses to choose from dealing with Computers, I dont know if I should take ONLY Computer Programming, or other ones around that, like ICP/TP, Java, Computer Hardware, etc, there is a vast amount of computer courses.

2. I live in Canada, should I scrap the whole computer programming idea due to “outsourcing” to other countries, India for example? I really like Computers and would like to do stuff with them, but more hands on stuff, like coding and stuff, I don’t want to create images for design and stuff, I just want to do programming, coding, engineering, stuff like that, but I also don’t want to get out of University/College and find absoulutely no jobs because they all went to India or some other country.

Thanks all Programmers! This could help a young man’s future!!

– Justin

Best answer:

Answer by fjpoblam
1. Hehehe I took some but precious little advanced math, but then majored in English: Shakespeare, Hemingway, Camus, T.S. Eliot…working graveyard shift at IBM. A long and winding road…

2. No, don’t scrap it. Programming will be worldwide. Brains aren’t being shipped anywhere. Mindwork is wherever it’s found. You gotta good one? Dig in. You can’t excel unless you’re hungry, and if you’re not hungry for images and you ARE hungry for programming, then go for it. You’ll make it.

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