“Programming is easy”
“Programming is easy,” says Ranga Yogeshwar, who has launched an initiative with this name.
Programming languages are a closed book for most people – rather like the subtleties of quantum physics. But that is the wrong way to look at it, says Ranga Yogeshwar. In a time when the smartphone has become a constant companion, people are doing more and more of their shopping online, and social media are documenting the everyday lives of millions of people, users should use the new technologies creatively. Science journalist and television presenter Yogeshwar has launched an initiative called “Jeder kann programmieren” (Programming is easy) – not as a gimmick, but as a contribution to societal emancipation. Programming is “an expression of our emancipation in a modern world”, Yogeshwar said recently in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
His fellow campaigner in the initiative is Thomas Bendig, managing director of the Fraunhofer ICT Group, Europe’s largest IT research organisation. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the project, which aims to help people to get started in the supposedly inaccessible world of programming through a website with a variety of forums and online courses.
