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!

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    since everyone on lemmy is a programmer

    Just because I’m on Lemmy, does not make me a programmer.

    I mean, I am a programmer.

    But not because I’m on Lemmy. (I think.)

    what do you guys actually do?

    I say “please” in various ways that computers understand.

    Is it copying and pasting tons of code?

    Well… Yes, but with a lot more swearing at the computer.

    But I’m very good at it, so I copy and paste very small amounts of code very cleverly.

    Is it fixing small bugs

    I fix small bugs, huge bugs, critical bugs, and intermittent sneaky bugs. I get paid either way.