Why Program

Hello, and welcome to Python for Everybody. My name's Charles Severance and I am your instructor. We named this Python for Everybody because we are dedicated to the notion that increasingly as our lives are surrounded by technology, that we want you to become a maker of technology, not just a consumer of technology. We want to change your perspective from this side of technology where you are looking at it, to the other side where you're back here. You are like a creator of the technology and you can create things. And it takes a long time and you may not want to be a professional programmer ever, you might just like read a little bit of data, but we believe that everybody should know basically how to program and how to get things done inside of a computer, just as much to just be a responsible participant in a modern, increasingly technically oriented society.