What they taught us regarding programming in 1966 in College

The first thing they said was: "Garbage in Garbage out"

What this means is if you write a silly or not well thought out program you are going to have shitty results if any at all.

So, the important thing is to make a flow chart of what you want to do first.

After you design a flow chart of what you are trying to accomplish first then you can apply it directly to whatever language you are trying to program it into. (At that time Fortran and Cobol). What's interesting to me is that both these languages are still used.

Cobol is a business language

And Fortran is what is sounds like "Formula Translation". I liked Fortran a lot because it reminded me of learning Algebra a lot like "a+b=c" and all that.

But, the other thing I began to think about was how far reaching computer programming was going to be in the future, especially when they began to microminiaturize computers for spacecraft like the Space Shuttle and before that Gemini and Apollo. So, this is where microminiturization really got going from the military and the space program all coming from Kennedy wanting to put a man on the moon before the Russians.

So, microchips started in the Space program and slowly filtered down into universities and business from that during the 1970s and after. Once you had microchips and RAM you really had something and memory and the CPUs became really fast and then faster in an exponential way and this is still happening today only now you have Quantum computers and Artificial intelligence going gangbusters too.

And just because you don't understand all this doesn't mean it isn't going to steal your job and your children's jobs tomorrow worldwide if you are middle Class.

So, I suggest you educate yourself enough about programming and the 4th technological revolution so you and your children can survive all this as it is coming now and throughout this century faster and faster until the Technological singularity hits anytime between now and 2045.

No one really knows if any humans will be alive or not at the point of the Technological singularity because by then humans will have lost control of artificial intelligence (if we haven't already).