In writing a lot of simple apps, you don't even have to know the whole language. Just enough to access data in a database and show reports and forums with buttons that can be pressed to activate stuff. For example you can write a program in procedural statements instead of object oriented designs.

I'd say easiest language to learn would be BASIC, Microsoft changed how Visual BASIC works so it is more like Java now since 2002 and Visual BASIC 6.0 was the last Classic Visual BASIC.

I have to admit, there are a lot of people who write those comments.

Take a look at the Windows 2000 Source: http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html

The very same thing that happened to Reddit. Censorship because you offended someone else's feelings and they clicked the report link on you to fill out a form why your post was harassment to them.

Programming jobs have changed, HR and Management use marketing terms because they don't understand how programming works or what programming concepts are.

They auto-reject people based on resumes using AI programs to read in Word documents and index them. Those who meet the strict requirements and keywords get the interviews and are asked to build a sample app in one hour that does something like messaging in Java using frameworks and OOP and best practices. When they fail to hire someone they go for H1B Visa quotas.

You find some stuff like 5+ years of Visual C# 2015 as a requirement, it is insane.

Oddly in the old days women used to get a lot of programming jobs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-programming-was-womens-work/2011/08/24/gIQAdixGgJ_story.html

They sort of gave up in the 1980s when the personal computer came out and it was targeted to boys. Women in computer science has declined since then.

Boys and men filled the void left by women who left programming jobs.

So really these gender politics issues are silly, women used to dominate programming at one time. The only reason why we don't have more women as programmers is lack of interest. Only 18% of computer science students are female.

Title IX, if accused of sexual assault or rape you have to prove you got consent first before you had sex. No lawyers, just the college court and your hearing.

Women can claim rape or sexual assault even if you got consent because they regret it later. Claim you forced her or she was drunk or stoned. They get rewarded with scholarships and grants and get to speak about their experiences for money like Mattress Girl. http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2015/06/did-mattress-girl-tell-the-truth-not-very-likely/

That worldview is not based on logic or reason, it is based on hatred of the white straight male. Hate never passes intellectual scrutiny.

The only reason why there are so many white straight males in computer science and information systems is that is the only group that studied them to get a degree in them to be qualified for the job. There is nothing to stop a female or non-white person to take those courses but few do.

Let me explain it with a 9Gag cartoon: http://9gag.com/gag/a6ye7xR/gender-pay-gap-in-stem-fields-explained

You got STEM and Gender Studies, women refuse to sign up for STEM and choose Gender Studies instead and then protest that STEM is mostly white straight males. If they chose STEM instead they'd have the same jobs as their male counterparts.

A lot of gender studies, women's studies, feminism classes teach that everything is the fault of the white straight male. That only the white straight male can be racist or sexist. White straight males are evil, the devil. When IT jobs start going to people with degrees in gender studies or women's studies you know the company is going into SJW mode because instead of hiring for information systems or computer science degrees they hire for humanities and art degrees and just let them attack the white straight males and drive them out of the company. For diversity and equal rights, of course, they claim.

This all started in the Opal project, when they wanted to remove a programmer for making homophobic tweets. What I read about his tweets was stuff like X+Y = Male and X+X = Female on a T-shirt image. It seems like biology stuff. But since Transgender people were offended by it, it became transphobic. There was a thread to remove him, and they refused, so there was another thread to make a CoC or code of conduct for Github projects. It was written by SJWs, and only white males can be sexist or racist according to their definitions. All other forms of racism or sexism towards white males will be allowed and they will not act upon it.

I think this sort of stuff is like another Gamergate scandal. The news media will most likely vilify the white males in this case like they did in Gamergate. It seems to be good for their ratings to bias the news on the SJWs worldview.

Classic Visual BASIC, it introduced me to drag and drop controls for GUI forms. It made programming fun again by making it easier to make menus and forms and other things. Also VBA in MS-Office macros.

Admiral Grace Hopper wrote COBOL.

Mary Kenneth Keller contributed to the BASIC project and she was a Nun with multiple PHD degrees.

Without COBOL you wouldn't have the finance industry. Without BASIC you wouldn't have microcomputers using it as part of their operating system.

Based on the terms that social justice warriors use.