Credit where credit's due, programmers are great at being open and helping newbies find their footing. I studied as an electrical engineer, but ended up drifti

Credit where credit's due, programmers are great at being open and helping newbies find their footing. I studied as an electrical engineer, but ended up drifting into the software world because my first preference (FPGA/Embedded dev) was so heavily gatekept and actively hostile to newcomers.