By the time you are through with your computer programming training and start looking out for the ideal job opportunity you would have a fair idea as to which type of programming would be of more interest to you, application or systems. Application programmers would be required to write programs for a specific purpose such as keeping track of an inventory within an organization. A specific type of computer programming training would equip system programmers to write programs to monitor computer systems software like operating systems for example and they would be expected to have sufficient knowledge about all types of operating systems.