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Interesting thoughts. Makes me realize I never wanted to learn to code. I never set out for it. I want to learn to code things now, but back then? I wanted
by sumtechguy 3y ago
Interesting thoughts.
Makes me realize I never wanted to learn to code. I never set out for it. I want to learn to code things now, but back then? I wanted to make an executable that did something. Sometimes it was a game. Sometimes it was some weird graphical screen saver like thing. Coding was just to make it happen. That became something interesting too, eventually.
It is something we as programmers forget. Why we did it in the first place. It usually shows up when those analyst show up and want some program. Cant they see how amazing our code is? /s When what they want is a program that does something.
- doubled112 3y agoThis resonates. I started coding pretty young (Perl probably ruined me at 12), and what I realized as a teenager was that I didn't really enjoy programming, it was just the means to an end. I wanted to make the computers do something. I'm a system administrator now. Turns out that most of the problems I wanted to solved had capable people already working on them. Those years of coding give me such an advantage when things go wrong, though. I've never regretted it for a second.