What is a typical day in the life of a computer programmer?
This varies so much that there’s no one answer. Programmers who work for bureaucratic organizations like governments or big companies may spend nearly all their time in meetings or responding to email, and hardly any time actually writing code. Whereas programmers who work for startup companies or on research projects spend many hours a day programming. Interruptions are very bad for programming, so people who spend a lot of time programming often do it at times when they’ll be left alone, like late at night or early in the morning. 5. What is some advice you would give to young computer programmers? Programming is something you learn by doing. So don’t be passive. Don’t wait for classes to teach you how to program. The way you learn is by starting projects of your own. (This is true for most fields, actually, not just programming.) 6. Is it easy to find a job as a computer programmer? If you’re good it’s always easy to find programming jobs. Even when the economy is bad there is a sho
