Making friends can be turned into an algorithm for processing inside the programmer mind.

Read this 2 or 3 times and do everything it tells you to do, and you'll have people going out of their way to be your friend.

http://www.amazon.com/Likeability-Factor-L-Factor-Achieve-Dr...

I got the audiobook on this and listened to it twice 6 months ago, I've been following the rules religiously, and my emotional intelligence and personal likability has skyrocketed. I have people who I know who's faces light up (male and female) when they see me and are eager to see me again. They don't know I'm running an elaborate algorithm to do exactly that, and can turn it off as quickly as I turn it on. Learning the basic syntax and procedures are for maintaining loyal close friends is easier than learning Programming.