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 program out of my own need, and if something/a project catches me, it really catches me (ADD). So for a large part, it’s customizing software and scripting for my server (selfhosting and hosting others).
As for larger projects, rn I’m managing a middle-sized but fucked up old django webapp, and rewriting it.
Mostly, it’s actually writing code (primarily python), including reading docs/tutorials and adapting that to how I actually need it, in my head, and integrating that into the codebase.
At work, it’s the fixing of small stuff in Java Spring. And that certainly does not catch me at all.