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Infographic by Veracode Application Security

The infographic on the left shows the history of the current crop of programming languages.

New Millennium’s journey: Finding and Creating new Paths

The high cost of education coupled with tech companies increasingly relying on crowd sourcing to handle data maintenance issues, leaves the office professional little chioce but to take on a greater responsibility to upgrade their skill sets.

Adversity creates opportunity

Web developers, content providers can now leverage their skills to becoming ELearning Profesionals. Yeah, really there is a market out there and you better move quickly. The NY Public Library is coming out with free online courses to train future office professionals on core office skills, like word processing, spreadsheets, searches, email, cloud and social networks. Things that you are already proficient at. Using tools like Skype with Social Media you can become an ELearning Professional at little cost. At this point I would reccomend getting certifications to give yourself the "street" credibility to get you off the ground and running.

Some further perspectives on Computer literacy

• The 7 basic computer skills every office professional needs.
• What is digital literacy

Plugins can be detrimental to your development

If you want to be a real programmer/developer you need to realize that relying too heavily on plugins will not make you a better at your craft. Your job is to read, analyze and write code with the goal of providing solutions. What happens when the plugins you installed don't work properly or need to be adjusted. Then you have to contact a "real" programmer to provide a solution. The universe of pseudo programmers consists of DBAs, QA's, Web Desingers, Bloggers, Progject Managers, accountants, etc. all skilled in there craft. Just don't ask them to debug code and create code to fix application errors located in program files.

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