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I used to work in spreadsheets all day, or at least, 70% of the time, I'd have to collate 50x spreadsheets information into a singular summary page, etc. I wor

by salemh 10y ago

I used to work in spreadsheets all day, or at least, 70% of the time, I'd have to collate 50x spreadsheets information into a singular summary page, etc. I worked through ~20% of "Learn Python the Hard Way", then later, the intro CS 101 of Udacity which has a Python intro, as I wanted to be able to do more then vlookups and complex workarounds for Excel sheets. My new career is in marketing automation, so I did some tutorials online, and bought a SQL book to pull PL/SQL queries for data segmentation. I also picked up HTML/CSS, but don't have any reason to really use Jscript. I can read it, and trouble shoot in some landing page uses, but I don't need it. Learning to code was always a supplemental goal for career growth, and I find it fun. I was that IRC guy who loved scripting simple tasks like a music player/displayer, k/b wars, etc. However, when I'm actually diving into learning actual code, I don't enjoy it. I don't think I'm built for it, just as I don't grok statistics, yet my sibling is a actuarial scientist, but he gets confused about things that come naturally to me. Being in Marketing Automation, its more relevant for me to do "continued" (outside of work) education not in coding, but in platform research (Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo), more SQL/data management (I am reading "Object Technology: a Manager Guide), and certifications in these platforms.

antisthenes 10y ago
Your experience rings true to me. I don't particularly enjoy coding other than figuring out a way to automate some boring task for myself or someone else. I also don't entertain the idea of having to spend most of my free time learning how to comprehend some particular peculiarities of a language syntax and generally keeping track of technology updates. Also, browsing the internet I realized that with the advent of sourceforge/github/stackoverflow, no matter how hard I try to write some piece of code, it has _always_ been the case that it's already been written and, with minor modifications will solve my problem, whether in the form of a code snippet or a full desktop application.

by salemh 10y ago

antisthenes 10y ago

Your experience rings true to me. I don't particularly enjoy coding other than figuring out a way to automate some boring task for myself or someone else. I also don't entertain the idea of having to spend most of my free time learning how to comprehend some particular peculiarities of a language syntax and generally keeping track of technology updates. Also, browsing the internet I realized that with the advent of sourceforge/github/stackoverflow, no matter how hard I try to write some piece of code, it has _always_ been the case that it's already been written and, with minor modifications will solve my problem, whether in the form of a code snippet or a full desktop application.