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"Sure, programming languages are cool and useful, but so is geometry, and I don’t spend my free time on that either." :D - I'm spending this sunday afternoon l
by IsaacL 11y ago
"Sure, programming languages are cool and useful, but so is geometry, and I don’t spend my free time on that either."
:D - I'm spending this sunday afternoon learning abut geodesic grids (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Geodesic_Grids https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Geodesic_Grids) as part of a project to teach myself d3.js.
Otherwise - I agree with the author. It was strange seeing programming become a huge thing about 2/3 years ago, but realistically, most people don't have the mathematical/logical abilities to ever get really productive. Which is fine, they should focus on what they're good at, rather than beat themselves up for not mastering a quite specialised skill.
I gather the growth in coding bootcamps has lowered the demand for junior devs, but there's still a huge demand for more experienced people.
- TrevorJ 11y agoI don't buy into the idea that you need some set of innate talent to be able to program. Logic and reasoning is a skill, and it can be trained just like any other.