Consider the question, what percentage of programs are released to the public (either commercial or open source)? Even excluding student assignments, this percentage may be far lower than one might think. My expectations are biased by having many friends at Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. But thinking further, I spent 10-20% of my time as a salaried employee doing just that, writing little programs. These coding projects were intended to help me do my job faster, which was contributing to a commercial software product.
This is my introduction to a piece of career advice regarding being a Computer Scientist (*cough* programmer), Don't Call Yourself a Programmer.
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