3-Decide what type of programmer you want to be. Programmers generally fall under one of the following categories:

• Web programmer
• Desktop application programmer
  • Operating system (OS) oriented programmer(tied to a single operating system or set of operating systems)
  • Platform-independent programmer
• Distributed applications programmer
• Library/platform/framework/core programmer
• System programmer
  • Kernel programmer
  • Driver programmer
  • Compiler programmer
• Programming scientist