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Writing programs or programming is a very creativeand rewarding activity You can write programs formany reasons ranging from making your living to solvinga difficult data analysis problem to having fun to helpingsomeone else solve a problem This book assumes that{\em everyone} needs to know how to program and that onceyou know how to program, you will figure out what you wantto do with your newfound skillsWe are surrounded in our daily lives with computers rangingfrom laptops to cell phones We can think of these computersas our personal assistants who can take care of many thingson our behalf The hardware in our current-day computersis essentially built to continuously ask us the questionWhat would you like me to do nextOur computers are fast and have vasts amounts of memory and could be very helpful to us if we only knew the language to speak to explain to the computer what we would like it to do next If we knew this language we could tell the computer to do tasks on our behalf that were reptitive Interestingly, the kinds of things computers can do bestare often the kinds of things that we humans find boringand mind-numbing