As programmers, we have a limited language and an objective to create great things. I consider that wee needs to understand that in comparison to other careers we have something established and that needs to be understandable to everyone else without rodeos.
Up to this moment at the University we have been taught many programming languages, the way to use them, the internationality that they have and the many ways we can use to solve a problem. We are the society of limited language but great imagination.
There are some good practices that as developers we need to follow, such as making the code as understandable as possible, to generate the documentation, to describe what we are doing and so on, so that people who read our code can easily understand it and make the proper changes in the correct time. But sometimes, people do not understand it and generate the code as hard as they can, so that their ideas cannot be stolen.
The problem with developers who do this is that the limited languages that we have become the hardest book we have ever read and they become someone essential in the company and so they have control of the things we need. What I am referring to is similar to the control that the government has in the book of George Orwell to the language and so to the way people think. In our case, the company where the developer who follows these rules thinks that they cannot fire him because he has got all the knowledge, but as programmers, we need to make stuff that people continue to use even though we are not there anymore or that can change according to the necessities.
The other problem that I consider we have as developers another important thing to take into consideration: the use of our programs. We got the power to get to people in an easy way, to get their information and to easily make them change their ideas. The problem with that is that people might use their information in the wrong way. Information is the most valuable thing nowadays and people would kill for all the things that we can have access while creating an app because people do not read the terms of privacy.
I consider that we have both sides, lots of power and limited language and that's maybe the reason people do not like to program. We need to change the way we think to some simple commands that can or cannot be understandable to any human being. We need to take into consideration that people change and that they become more and more lazhy and that what we create might make a change in their lives or not.
Up to this moment at the University we have been taught many programming languages, the way to use them, the internationality that they have and the many ways we can use to solve a problem. We are the society of limited language but great imagination.
There are some good practices that as developers we need to follow, such as making the code as understandable as possible, to generate the documentation, to describe what we are doing and so on, so that people who read our code can easily understand it and make the proper changes in the correct time. But sometimes, people do not understand it and generate the code as hard as they can, so that their ideas cannot be stolen.
The problem with developers who do this is that the limited languages that we have become the hardest book we have ever read and they become someone essential in the company and so they have control of the things we need. What I am referring to is similar to the control that the government has in the book of George Orwell to the language and so to the way people think. In our case, the company where the developer who follows these rules thinks that they cannot fire him because he has got all the knowledge, but as programmers, we need to make stuff that people continue to use even though we are not there anymore or that can change according to the necessities.
The other problem that I consider we have as developers another important thing to take into consideration: the use of our programs. We got the power to get to people in an easy way, to get their information and to easily make them change their ideas. The problem with that is that people might use their information in the wrong way. Information is the most valuable thing nowadays and people would kill for all the things that we can have access while creating an app because people do not read the terms of privacy.
I consider that we have both sides, lots of power and limited language and that's maybe the reason people do not like to program. We need to change the way we think to some simple commands that can or cannot be understandable to any human being. We need to take into consideration that people change and that they become more and more lazhy and that what we create might make a change in their lives or not.
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