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Volume 5 , Issue 3 (April 2007) table of contents
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DEPARTMENT: Kode vicious table of contents

Pages: 12 - 14

Year of Publication: 2007

ISSN:1542-7730

Author

George Neville-Neil

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Dear KV, I am new to programming and just started reading some books about programming, particularly C++ and Visual Basic. I truly enjoy programming a lot, to the extent that for the past couple of months I have never missed a day without writing some code. My main concern now is what the world holds for programmers. If someone is called a programmer (i.e., professionally), what will he or she really be programming? As in, will you always be inventing new software or what, really? This is mainly in the case of someone who will not be working for someone else. My other question is, can you really build a career as a freelance programmer, and what will you basically be programming?

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Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
D.1.0 General