What are you going to do for Programmer Day?

Here are the usual suggestions:

Speak in code (or pseudocode) all day

Decorate a tree with zeros and ones to make a binary tree

Make Happy Programmer Day cards using ASCII art

Have a contest for the best binary pun / programming joke

Have a programmer themed cocktail

Are these just too tired?

What about:

Teach someone to program just a little bit.

Explain why programming is a mode of thought that is incredibly effective.

Point out to an assembled group of people what the world would be like without software.

Describe how much better the world would be if EVERYONE could think algorithmically so getting to real solutions rather than just expressing vague desires about “a better world”.

Programmers Day comes around every year and yet each year it seems to be increasingly ignored. Why, when we are trying to encourage children to take up all things computing, is Programmers Day such a big flop?

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