Question

why do we need programming?

Answer 1

Well, what would you do wih a computer without programming? Use it as a door stop?

Answer 2

Think other way, In computer or say Computing everything is programming except the hardware. Now you can ask yourself "Why don't we need programming?"

Answer 3

My humble opinion: we need programming to tell a computer how to accept (user) input, what to do with it and how to output it (to the user).

Answer 4

well said @Mandre