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As an analogy, getting into medicine isn’t easy, but exercising to improve your health is. (I know this doesn’t hold true for everyone. For instance I have some
by dfinninger 6y ago
As an analogy, getting into medicine isn’t easy, but exercising to improve your health is.
(I know this doesn’t hold true for everyone. For instance I have some complicating health issues, although hopefully you see my point.)
I think the equivalent here is something like:
stuff = requests.get(“example.com”).json()
print(stuff[“thing”][“I”][“want”])
It’s technically coding, is pretty easy, and potentially beneficial to your life.
Same with Excel macros or whatever.
Maybe that person will have a fire lit in them and pursue a software engineering career. Maybe it’ll just be a script on their desktop that cleans up screenshots.
I don’t find that implication insulting even though I’ve spent (now) the majority of my life honing “coding” as a skill.
It’s a mountain to climb, but the first few miles have some pretty nice vistas.
- flipcoder 6y agoI guess my view is it's sort of like learning one note on guitar and saying guitar is so easy because you learned it in a day. Would you introduce yourself as a guitar player after doing that? If I memorize one word in a foreign language, am I bilingual? Here's some rocket science too: t - 10s I like words to hold clear meanings. If everything is easy because there's one easy thing about it, the word has no meaning. If a coder is anyone who can do Hello World, it's pointless even calling yourself one. It means nothing.