[Edu-sig] Re: Programming for the fun of it

[Dethe Elza]

I'm going to have to switch from digest mode to real-time (or whatever the
opposite of digest is, perhaps undigested).  I keep having ideas and
responses that I wished I'd written yesterday in the heat of the thread.

OK, here's another reason for learning programming:

* Because computer have changed everything we do, being able to program can
make you a better photographer, teacher, artist, student, architect, broker,
etc.

Note, the reverse is true also, that the real world is far more satisfying
and stimulating, and by mixing previously unrelated ideas, often from widely
disparate fields, we get true innovation.  Which is an argument for
programmers to learn painting, architecture, medicine, economics, education,
etc.

--Dethe