Copy/paste someone else's code into your own project then play games/watch anime for a while.
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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Are you sure you're not already a programmer?
I took programming in highschool with Turing. As far as I know that's how every computer program works
Just to give the benefit of the doubt, I don't think they actually think you type in binary, I think "1s and 0s" has become a colloquialism used to refer to "programming languages" or in some cases "digital magic I don't understand." They just don't know the words python, javascript, html, bash, rust, c, c++, c#, F#A# infinity, etc.
I hope.
I appreciate the GYBE reference
They've probably seen Assembly code and that looks quite like binary if you don't pay much attention.
I feel like if you donβt know any different assembly will look like any other programming language. Just a bunch of words on lines that you donβt understand.
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.
Just turning it off and on again until a game pops out.
I guess you write a bunch of gibberish, press execute and hope something happens?
I mean, you're not WRONG.
whack-a-mole, but in the Matrix
that's why i stuck with the creative side :P the only IT i do is at home.
Adding powdered sugar to a donut?
Lots of copying and pasting from github.
Stressful as shit. Because if you're not overworked then you're laid off
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)