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Computers are ripe to take over the world and you — YOU — may help humanity get swept away by artificially intelligent overlords by learning to code. Or maybe, by learning how to program sequences of commands for computers to follow, you can BE THE HERO that stops the inevitable onset of malevolent robots. It’s likely your plans are more modest, but we really should recognize just how powerful a force programmable computers are when their potential is unleashed by the people who design their activities: computer programmers. Applications and programs can exploit a computing device’s ability to crunch numbers and follow instructions at breakneck speed, but most people who take advantage of them daily don’t understand how much deep thinking goes into making those programs work. You are about to take a step away from that group of “most people” and towards the much smaller group of people who build, advance, and perfect the programs that others use.

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