With technology advancing at a rapid rate, having solid computer skills is becoming an asset in today's competitive job market. Computer programmers often have the chance to learn several computer languages, thus developing the ability to understand how programs work and troubleshoot systems.

Some have the chance to learn about computer programming while still in high school, perhaps building the foundations for a future career.

One such group attended Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS) and had the chance to participate in Clunhouse Parallel Universe Bootcamp, according to HPCWire.

Here, the students had the chance to learn more about the kind of things computer applications developers work on and study software and parallel programming techniques.

James Reinders the head software evangelist at Intel explained that he feels parallel programming is becoming a "fundamental" part of a programmer's skill set and said that "the students we got [at BTHS] were definitely ready for the material."

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals that computer programming may be a lucrative career, for it is expected that this will be one of the fastest-growing occupations up until 2016.