Programmers Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year which falls on 13th September in common years and 12th September in leap years.
The number 256 (28) was chosen because it is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, a value well-known to programmers. 256 is also the highest power of two that is less than 365, the number of days in a common year.
In today’s technology-driven world, even during tough times like COVID-19, technology has made it possible to handle things in an easy way like usual without affecting negatively. This has made people and their jobs safe.
It is hard to do anything without electronic devices. Most things we use in day-to-day lives such as all our different devices, IoT, etc., work depending on the programming in its background. The reason behind this development is the programmers. Programmers make all things possible by using their innovative ideas. Hence, we can say programmers have made our lives much easier, flexible and reachable to any extent around the world by creating programmes according to requirements.
The term ‘programmer’ can refer to a specialist in one area of computers, or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. By and large, programmers are creative, detail-oriented people who love solving problems and creating solutions that help others. And whether you call them programmers, coders, or software engineers/developers/architects, individuals in this trade have truly shaped the modern world.
Virtually everything you experience these days involved a programmer (or, more likely, teams of them): from media to transportation, education to finance, medicine to research, tele-communications to manufacturing. The Internet and the rest of our digital world was built by programmers or the tools of their efforts.
The dedication of programmers is critical for the efficiency of our modern systems and processes and, increasingly, just as important in the defense of those systems from cyber attack.
Bugs, gaps, or vulnerabilities in software design create the opportunities for hackers (often criminal programmers themselves) to breach our financial and personal information. Beyond just designing software systems that operate our virtual world, programmers must also strive to maintain a last line of defense in their applications.
Programming makes the world a better place
The world wouldn’t be the place it is today without programmers. Everything uses technology. From how we connect with loved ones who are far away to the way we get directions when traveling, programmers have helped to make everyday life easier.
Technology also has positively impacted the health industry. Everything from insulin pumps to health data gathered by the CDC has helped keep people healthier and living longer. And this is just the beginning.
International Programmers Day: History and Significance
The International Programmers Day was first celebrated in the year 2009. Valentin Balt and Michael Cherviakov of Parallel Technologies proposed the day in 2007. In mid-2002, they attempted to assemble signatures for an appeal to the Russian government to perceive the day as the Day of the Programmer official. The Russia Ministry of Communications and Mass Media on July 24, 2009, had issued a draft of an executive order. It denoted the new professional holiday, Day of the Programmer. The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev had signed the declaration on September 11, 2009.
Computers, technology, and software cause the modern world to go around – yet for each bit of clever software, there’s a programmer (and regularly groups of programmers) in the background, solving issues with clever code, cloud security solutions, and exceptional development projects. Save an idea for these digital pioneers on Programmers’ Day!
Programmers’ Day is an international professional holiday, perceived in numerous technology organizations and programming firms. It is additionally formally perceived in Russia and seen in a few different nations, including Israel, Bangladesh, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Guatemala, India, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay. The holiday eventually spread all through the world, generally because of the Internet.
Celebration
Programming is not one thing, it is not fixed, it is different for different people. For some, programming is corporate, it’s all business. For others, programming is game development, or it’s art, or music, or language, or telling a robotic arm how to deal with cards.
For some people, it’s just a job, but programming can be incredibly rewarding both intellectually and in one’s career.
So, today is the day for programmers to celebrate and take a pride in saying they are programmers who joined their major hands in turning the world into a technology-driven environment and during tough times like COVID, they have made work from home possible and hence, proved their capability in achieving tough times like this.
