Programmers, most people think of them as "hard working" people who spent most of their time typing code. That's somewhat true but there are many thing you may get wrong while thinking of programmers.
A programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who creates computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. - Wikipedia
There are many types of programmers, I can fill this whole post with different types programmers and their work but I don't want to do that. So now you may have gotten some understanding of programmers if you didn't had it before. There are some misconceptions about programmers.
Most daily computer users are limited to functionalities that are already provided by different companies. Like if you're using Windows, you are actually using efforts of team of developers that made Windows. Even though there are almost every kind of software and websites provided by different developers or company, wouldn't it be cool to make something of your own? There are high demands of developers in world and less quantity of "Professional" developers, this makes mindset that developers are hard workers or it is hard to become a good developer. I am not a full-stack developer myself but I am working hard to become one.
You can actually take real life classes but I prefer online ones. There's a very well written article by a person named 
HTML & CSS are two of the main languages that every programmer should learn. These languages are main for every developer, even if you don't want to do web development. I still recommend them. You can learn these languages from CodeCademy.
There is a language for every developer in which he is better than other languages, for me it is "Python". It one of the easiest and coolest languages to master and it is multipurpose language which means it can be used for multiple things. Such as:
You can learn this language at CodeCademy too.
It depends, for me personally I don't like to make my every code open source but many developers do. Some of the advantages are below:
There are also disadvantages:
As you saw above there both advantages and disadvantages for making code open source. Whether you like being open source or not I am not gonna judge you. If we take average of how many people like making code open source and how many not, we can see majority of developers like making code open source.
I wanted to make this post for people like me who hates dates, name of creator and all that historical things.
