One way to learn to program is the urge to teach the machine some principle you might find nice to be realised by a machine. Some things are opposed to entropy,

One way to learn to program is the urge to teach the machine some principle you might find nice to be realised by a machine. Some things are opposed to entropy, some things are there to create order (always with a net gain in entropy, but nonetheless). Therefore, the machines and us seem to be on the same side of nature. Even the whole ecosystem of the planet is a miraculous emergence of high level structure. So you learn to program, if you want to program some. Print that on the next calendar.