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Not everybody who designs and creates software is a programmer.

You will agree with me that it's not everybody who designs or creates software is a programmer, now you will ask, why is anybody who has managed to design a software call him or herself a programmer? The fact is that the title "programmer" comes with respect (Please correct me if am wrong), because everybody thinks you are a genius. My concern is that anybody can now design a software, enter forums like stark exchange and comments on coding problems, the worst part is that they publish articles on the internet telling you that writing codes and making software isn't hard at all that the only thing you need to excel as a programmer is a marketing skill. Yes, marketing skill is important if you plan to market your software yourself, but in my opinion, to excel as a programmer, you need to be superb at writing life changing codes. If you focus only on marketing like this naive publisher advised, you will make a lot of crapwares (guess that's why we have so many junks in these app stores). A good product will always market itself, if it doesn't users will market it, and what marketing method would be better than this? There is this popular food in my country called Eba (it's called Garri when it's not yet prepared). Garri has never been advertised on TV or anywhere yet, it remains the most popular food in Nigeria. I read an interview which was held with the guy that made Grand Theft, when he was asked how he markets his game, he said that he has never placed any ad on the internet about his game. Before I played this game, a friend kept telling me that I needed to play this mind blowing game and I did and told more people, these people told more people.... You see friends, good product before, marketing after. I wrote this post because of some annoying article I encountered today. Please forgive me if I kicked your cat.

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