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Gianni R Feb 26, 2024

What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? - Lemmy

As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren’t as familiar with it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do. - I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.

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UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT Feb 26, 2024

I mean the classic is that you must be “really good at computers” like I’m okay at debugging, just by being methodical, but if you plop me in front of a Windows 10 desktop and ask me to fix your printer; brother, I have haven’t fucked with any of those 3 things in over a decade.

I would be as a baby, learning everything anew, to solve your problem.

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stoly

I work in service design and delivery. It’s my job to understand how devices actually function. Can confirm that dev types can learn the stuff if they want to but most have not. Knowing how to set up your fancy computer with all the IDEs in the world is great but not the same as doing that for 5,000 people at once.