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I've always been curious as to what "normal" people think programming is like. The wildest theory I've heard is "typing ones and zeroes" (I'm a software engineer)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Copy/paste someone else's code into your own project then play games/watch anime for a while.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Are you sure you're not already a programmer?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think programming can be a pretty dull task, where you spend hours over hours copy-pasting fragments of code from former projects and/or from other sources, adjust it to your needs, run it, remove the bug, run it again and find the new ten bugs over and over again.

But you get to wear a black hoodie and a mask.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Stressful as shit. Because if you're not overworked then you're laid off

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

One minute coming up with a feature, ten minutes coding the most basic version, potentially infinute minutes improving/fixing bugs, -6 hours despairing over time zones. (I had an IT class in my last 2 years of school)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess you write a bunch of gibberish, press execute and hope something happens?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, you're not WRONG.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Adding powdered sugar to a donut?

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