Another great reason for taking interest in how to learn programming is to improve in your current career. I'll give you a great example of how this can work. I have a good friend who spent his whole education focused on business. After graduating from college, he got a job working for an energy company and he realized he wasn't climbing the corporate ladder quite as fast as he wanted. He approached me initially to see what it would take for him to transition and become a full-time developer. After a few minutes of speaking with him it became apparent that he didn't really want to become a programmer, he was simply frustrated with his current job.

So, I began asking him questions about what types of tasks he had at work. He worked in the supply chain division for his company and it was his job to comb through fleet management data and generate reports. I proposed that he learn the basics of programming and then to focus on data science.

After a few months, he had successfully built a big data analysis program that was able to manage his entire division. When he presented his work to the company's executives they were so impressed with the program that he was promoted and given a hefty raise. When I talk to him now he doesn't mention leaving his job anymore. Instead he discusses how he loves it and how he's constantly looking for new ways to integrate automated mechanisms to improve the work he does.