I have tried for 20 years to get into coding, and among adhd and having 10 million other projects going on, just could never get it beyond absolute basics and knowing some differences between languages.
Now it seems every tutorial I see is really just clicking around in a gui. Very little actual typing of code, which is the part I actually find cool and interesting.
So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do? Is it copying and pasting tons of code? Is it fixing small bugs in Java for a website like “the drop down field isn’t loading properly on this form”?
I just dont get what “a full stack developer sufficient in sql and python” actually does. Also i dont know if that sentence even made sense!
I simply started programming before there were GUIs. That helped a lot. Another thing that helped was that I had no means to save a program. I had to re-type it every time from the listings in the magazines, the main method of distributing software back then but for cartridges.
I later learned several different programming languages, and the first GUI I used was one I actually wrote myself (later, on a different computer which actually had a floppy disk drive).
And while my job is in programming, most of it is still typing. GUI use is limited to setting up the project in the IDE, which can be a lot of clicking and selecting, but once the basic hardware framework is set up, it’s all editor work.
What model was the computer that didn’t have a floppy? Your experience sounds very similar to mine.
TI99/4A. It took some time until I could afford the cable to connect a cassette recorder to it in order to save my files.
That’s the same model! I still have it in my garage or storage unit somewhere…
Mine is long dead. One of my nephews managed to stick a large screw in the expansion port, under the main board, shorting everything.