The craze and anxiety which people have towards programming is amazing. Programming really has the scope and is truly worth its hype and I feel that a lot more can be extracted from these languages and it can have better applications. But computer science is not all about programming right!
I don’t discourage people from doing programming neither do I say that programming is the ultimate thing one can ever do on the computer. There are various other fields which are equally interesting and have the same scope which programming languages have. Just a few days back we have seen the launch of Firefox 3.1 beta. Just imagine what it takes to make browsers like firefox, chrome, opera or even developing stuff like Photoshop. Even Flash doesn’t require much of programming skills. The craze for vfx and animation was always there. Computer science as a subject is undoubtedly like an ocean. I am here to get to know more about it, but what I see around me is people are giving importance only to programming!
One strange thing i found out few days back in my college. I always thought HTML, XML as markup languages. Of course they are markup languages as their abbreviation suggests. Topics like HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP come under what is called as Web Programming!. In a place where I study and the atmosphere around me, the scope for “programming” ends with desktop tips and tricks, C, C++ and Java. I might be wrong...but that is what it looks like.
