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Think of mobile phones, video games, web applications, tools for businesses such as POS,
all of these run on computer codes. In developing such applications or tools, a computer
programmer has to write codes that perform different operations or tasks within the
entire application. These tasks and operations when combined make up the entire application.
The activity of writing computer codes is referred to as coding.
Because we need things to be done more accurately, efficiently and timely softwares and
computer programs are now being developed to get such needed operations done. Sometimes
we mustn’t be physically available to get the done, computer programs and softwares are
being developed by computer programmers to get things done without any human presence.
Computer programs and softwares are developed with programming languages. A programming
language is just a language the computer understands. In most cases, a programming language
has to be interpreted to into a machine language (which is the actual language that a
computer understands). To instruct a computer to do something you will need to learn to speak
the language that the computer understands. Learning a computer language is not as difficult
as landing on the moon, if you are an English speaker, you can also learn to speak French.
The same is applicable to learning a computer programming language. There are different
programming languages, the one you choose to code with is often related with the career path
you choosed in tech. Among the several programming languages Python, Java, C++, JavaScript and
C# are among the top programming languages in the world. The ranking is in the order of
relevance or their popularity among developers. Python programming language is highly popular
among programmers because it is highly useful in the technology trends of 21st century.
Such trends as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Robortics uses
python programming language as the preferred language for development.
By using one or more of these programming languages to develop technologies, programmers are
changing the way things are done in the world. Over the years, machine and other technologies
have always been instructed to carry out tasks in the specific order that they were instructed
to, but there are so many variables that come into play when more there are several users of
a software or machine, and the machine needs to serve each person to meet their varieties of
needs. With Machine Learning, a software or machine learns as it is being used by people, it
learns each person to meet his needs more efficiently.
How would you analyze the data you collected from millions of people? If you were to do it by
manually, it would probably take you years to analyze the entire data, but with a Data Scientist
this is not so. With coding, a data scientist will analyze the code and project all the required
information. For example, if glo Nig. (with millions of customers nationwide) wants to find out
the percentage of their customers that purchased airtime credit using voucher, bank USSD code
or a web platform, they will need a Data Scientist since they cannot do it manually. A Data
Scientist will request for the raw data and next write some codes that will project the requested
information. Big companies, national and global brands rely on such expertise to get the
information that they need in order to make better marketing or management decisions.
In the fields of medicine, agriculture and the rest, we now have such things as telemedicine,
digital farms. These are innovations that have given rise to better delivery of services and
better yield of products.
