I have tried for 20 years to get into coding, and among adhd and having 10 million other projects going on, just could never get it beyond absolute basics and knowing some differences between languages.
Now it seems every tutorial I see is really just clicking around in a gui. Very little actual typing of code, which is the part I actually find cool and interesting.
So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do? Is it copying and pasting tons of code? Is it fixing small bugs in Java for a website like “the drop down field isn’t loading properly on this form”?
I just dont get what “a full stack developer sufficient in sql and python” actually does. Also i dont know if that sentence even made sense!
10% creating bugs, 90% fixing bugs.
This should work… it doesn’t. What? Why the hell not… omfg.
This should work… it doesn’t. What? Why the hell not… omfg.
This should work… it doesn’t. What? Why the hell not… omfg.
This should work… it doesn’t. What? Why the hell not… omfg.
This should work… it doesn’t. What? Why the hell not… omfg.
This shouldn’t work… Why the hell does it work, don’t touch it!!
I’m more scared of this one, “it should work but doesn’t” means there’s something I’m missing, usually small, maybe I forgot to change one function call or an import. “it shouldn’t work but does” means there’s a huge misconception in how the thing actually works.
They pay developers to put bugs in and then they pay them to take bugs out.
They pay people to find the bugs and then ignore them!!
You must be QA.
0% figuring out what the customer wants? I envy you.
There’s a zen peace that comes after realizing the customer is out of their mind and will change their mind tomorrow, anyway.