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In every job I had before moving into coding, I hated something about some piece of software I was using, and for various reasons, I found it impossible to addr
by amorphid 10y ago
In every job I had before moving into coding, I hated something about some piece of software I was using, and for various reasons, I found it impossible to address that thing I hated. So I learned to code. Now when I bump into software I don't like, I can do something about it, or learn to appreciate why it works that way!
- arduin0mancer 10y agoOn a similar note, the joy of automating stuff is amazing. My previous non-software job was with an engineering company and I ended up having to do stuff like manually typing values from a PDF report into an excel file. I got so annoyed with doing this task that one day I rage-coded a parser in python that took in raw PDF data and outputted a CSV file. The first useful thing you ever code is really motivating.