Eh, I’m naturally good at it. I got shoved into the programming UIL group in school with absolutely no background in programming and tied for 3rd place.
But, I really don’t enjoy doing it.
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
That you can just go to a bootcamp, and be good at or naturally suited for it.
That you can just go to college and get a degree, and be good at or naturally suited for it.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 9 months ago
coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 9 months ago
Why are you in programming related communities if you don’t enjoy it?
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 9 months ago
I browse by all
hightrix@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Exact same thing happened to me. Group project needed a programmer, I was a gamer with a nice computer so I volunteered. 15 years later and I’m a software engineer at a huge company.
ShroOmeric@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well that’s true for every field.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 9 months ago
But programming is definitely more open to the idea of people just showing up and claiming to know stuff. You wouldn’t trust Steve to build a bridge just because he watched a bunch of engineering videos on YouTube.