Question

What education and certification do computer programmers need for a successful career?

Answer 1

Education

Minimum Bachelors Degree required

For some jobs Masters Degree required

Certification

The Major responsibility of computer programmers job is to write code, so they should know at least 1 programming language.

There are different languages are suited to different applications, most programmers learn more than one languages or more versatile languages.

Programmers also update code for programs to make them more secure and/or functional. They routinely test code by looking for errors sections of code that the computer does not understand and debugging programs

For example take any website

Facebook

Front end:PHP, JavaScript, CSS & XHP

Back end: C, C++, Python & Java

Erlang for Facebook chat

Objective-C & Java for Facebook's iPhone & Android apps respectively.

Sought-after programming languages in today’s job market include Java, C#, C++, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby and ASP.Net. HTML, CSS & JavaScript are the building blocks of the World Wide Web

Famous certification

Ruby on Rails-Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer

JavaScript-JavaScript Developer Certificate

Java-SCJP

Python-PCEP,PCAP,PCPP

ASP.Net-Microsoft's MCTS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4,

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