The document discusses why learning to program is beneficial, provides a brief history of programming languages, and recommends places to learn more about programming. Specifically, it notes that programming helps solve problems logically and improve technical skills, allows communication with programmers and understanding of applications and websites, and is an enjoyable activity. It also lists some early and modern programming languages and websites where one can learn programming.

1. PROGRAMMING FOR Cindy Royal
Texas State U
COMMUNICATORS cindyroyal.com
@cindyroyal

2. WHY SHOULD I LEARN TO PROGRAM?
 It's fun!
 Helps you think logically through problems
 Important to continue to improve tech skills
 Good to learn about programming beyond html/ css
 Communicate with programmers
 Understand potential of applications
 Make websites respond to user interaction
 Build apps and games
 Access information on the Internet
 Organize and present data
 Validate forms
 It’s fun!

3. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
 Fortran, LISP and COBOL 1950s
 Basic 1964
 Pascal 1970
 C++/Perl 1980s
 Programming in the Internet Age ‘90s
 Object-oriented (collections of interacting objects)
 Python
 Ruby
 PHP
 HTML/CSS – markup languages
 Web Frameworks – rapid application development
 JavaScript - 1995

4. PLACES TO LEARN MORE
Codecademy.com
Lynda.com
W3 Schools