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!

  • HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Here’s the point in which I realized I didn’t understand coding at all.

    There as a mod for a game, that was like 95% of what I wanted. It just needed a few values changed, and it would have been perfect for me.

    Fortunately, the entire mod was hosted on github, and it was just 3 ‘.js’ files. I figured, hey, how bad could it be? I’ll have a look around, find the values I’m looking for, make a couple tweaks…

    All three files were entirely, top to bottom, just INCLUDE statements. Not a single line of ‘code’. And somehow that’s supposed to do something? That’s when I realized I was cooked.