2extremes:
While in school, I did well in Social Sciences, Admin and Management courses maybe because I can relate to them, but now, anywhere I go everybody keeps telling me to learn programming and switch to tech.
My question is can everybody know programming?
The thing is too abstract and I find it hard to relate with.

tensazangetsu20:
Not everyone must but then coding isn't all there is to tech. There's digital marketing, 3d animations, systems administration and so on. A lot of people think coding is all there is to tech but it's not. There's a lot of non coding fields out there.

Sheriman:
Nigerians always wants to saturates any profession because of hear say or mouth watering offers in that field not until when they eventually enter to discover some strange difficult things related to the particular field. Many people who are running to tech today does not know what it takes or sacrifices you have to make before becoming successful at it. I can say 80% of them have not realize what is in stock for them to learn and to have.
Also, some Nigerian tech facilitators maybe because of money they want to gained from these young people, they will not tell them all the truth about the field. Everybody can't be a programmer there are other lucrative digital technological profession. Infact they are many technology field just make a deep research then come out with your own findings. 3D Animation is a multi million dollar industry which people don't always talk about unlike programming. There are hundreds of jobs you could do as a 3D artist or 2D artist. Anyways, becoming boom at any of them requires a lot of sacrifices.
Nigeria is a country where people are easily convince with the huge amount of money a job is paying and the opportunity it offers everybody will want to go there where as everybody can't sacrifice what is needed to become good at it.
Programming is not a child play profession except you want to become those Nairalanders wack developers. It is life long learning field. You always keep reading, learning and practicing because this is technology and it is always get updated with introduction of new programming tools framework and libraries. You always have so many things to do just to remain relevant in the modern digital technological trend.
It is not a must you become a programmer if you're not ready and willing to get your hand busy all the time, denied yourself something you love doing. Sometimes it could be so tiring and frustrating especially if you run into bugs in your codes which may take you days to solve.
I think people should make proper research about any skill they recommended for them before jumping at it. Before earning that huge amount of money that is freaking you to want to become a tech guy, it comes with a lot of sacrifices, years of brainstorming of writing excellent codes, days of fixing bug and errors in your codes, years of reading documentations, years of using your codes to provide values and solutions to people and years of thinking to develop scalable software application with greater functionalities that provides solution to problem human are facing today.
You can see that the field is not for the lazy ones or someone who easily get fed up of something.
Thank you all!!

jesmond3945:
the coding part is where the money is and where you stand a chance as an African.

Ayo081:


Not anymore, there's technical writing, documentation, dev advocacy and more that pay really well.

jesmond3945:
that one is for the whites. Africans dont get lucky.

jesmond3945:
that one is for the whites. Africans dont get lucky.

jesmond3945:
If you are entering tech because of temporary monetary benefit I pity you. Tech is a must in the future. Infact, without knowledge of tech, in the future only God will help you survive. This is because no matter the job you are doing without tech knowledge you would not move forward. In the future, you have to learn how to speak 3 languages English, Maths and Computer. Dont let anybody deceive you. Enough said.

DrLevi:

This is exactly the problem. You guys wake up and say things like this and then some artist will drop his pencil to go start learning python.

This is totally fallacy
The future still needs agriculture because people must eat,
Fashion industry, because we need cloths
Teachers, people need to learn new things
Barbers
Carpenters
Chef
Artists
Musicians
Athletes
Entertainers
Writers
It's a long list of things, that doesn need tech in it and probably will never need tech in it

You people that preach tech into everything need to stop. Everybody can't be a developer or a UI designer or Technical writer. Everybody doesn't need to be a developer and it's high time this herd mentality thing stops.
People should chase their passion, monetise it and live comfortable life doing what they enjoy not this unnecessary race to do what everyone is doing

Managers, Accountants, Lawyers, Marketers/Publicity in these tech companies earn just as much the Devs themselves. Tech won't grow plants or defend court cases. It won't write novels or direct movies. It won't replace everything.

There are billion dollar industries out there that requires creativity and passion not codes. But trust humans to follow hype

jesmond3945:
dont deceive yourself and others. The world has left us behind. Didnt you see that you can increase milk production in cows using vr headsets? Didnt you see irrigation and fertelizer application using drones and robots. Thats why we dont produce enough to feed the country. Haven't you heard of internet of things. Have you askes yourself why israel agriculture industry is booming more than Nigeria's even when we have large land mass. Do you know there are sotwares that enable you plan and manage your farms? I am not telling you filmtrick. In the future ICT will run virtually everything. Do you know in Uk what guides Government policy is data? Is not your zoogeria that would build a bridge to score cheap political point. They build road or infrastructure based on the data, what do you think pools and analyzes these data? In estonia ICT runs virtually everything in that country. Have you not heard of 3d printing? Who needs a carpenter when you have 3d printing? Have you not heard of the metaverse. Below is my wife in the metaverse. Have you not heard of juro? The whole lawyers in Uk use juro to prepare their case, 250k cases processed by juro. Have you not heard of propert tech? Only in 2020 they raised 52 billion pounds alone.

Unless you want to remain in third world. Then continue wallowing. I was like you till lack of coding skills do me strong thing. I repeat in the future you cannot move forward without I

Sapeleboy911:

Like the other guy said this is pure fallacy, everybody must not be a programmer. The drones, juro, VR milk production you are talking about. There were writers who wrote about them, there are marketers, and there was a farm on which it was tried. Don't be surprised that the programmers who coded such stuff earned the least amount from those ventures. Or are you telling me that everybody in America, Uk, Isreal are programmers?

jesmond3945:
the owner of juro is a lawyer, the man that used vr set is a farmer. Have you not heard of latex? What if your employer tells you to write with latex what will you do? You would cry abi?
You go know the kind job wey you wan do for uk or America without tech. You mean flipping bugger or cleaning dead body.

jesmond3945:
the owner of juro is a lawyer, the man that used vr set is a farmer. Have you not heard of latex? What if your employer tells you to write with latex what will you do? You would cry abi?
You go know the kind job wey you wan do for uk or America without tech. You mean flipping bugger or cleaning dead body.

SALVATION30:

Computer literacy(ability to operate a computer and it's applications) is the skill everyone must have not programing.

A Dj should be able to use mixers.
An accountant should be able to use accounting software.
A writer should be able to use word processing software.
3d animators should be able to use an animation software.
Engineers should be able to use CAD software.
...

SALVATION30:

Computer literacy(ability to operate a computer and it's applications) is the skill everyone must have not programing.

A Dj should be able to use mixers.
An accountant should be able to use accounting software.
A writer should be able to use word processing software.
3d animators should be able to use an animation software.
Engineers should be able to use CAD softwares.
...

Sapeleboy911:


This is what he is failing to understand. For the fact that i use photoshop doesn't mean i know how it was coded or I know how to program adobe photoshop. Just because Linda Ikeji uses WordPress for blogging doesn't make her a web developer.

jesmond3945:
who told linda is not learning how to code wordpress even as we speak or even paying some one. In the future, employers will expect you to upskill or else you cannot move forward. Your colleagues that know how to code will be rising while you would be made redundant. Even people who are doing chemistry, biology are learning how to code with R, python, matlab. Doesn't R involve coding.

Kellzzyy:

People are correcting your ignorance you still dey wallow in it.
Computer literacy is diff from programming.
Stop being incorrigible.