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 have adhd and I’m a software developer. We make enterprise software for various clients.
We don’t copy and paste, per se, but we do have common practices and many let’s say functions for simplicity that we will reuse over and over as a lot of enterprise looks similar and just the customer screens change. So we still do a lot of problem solving but if we have already solved that problem before we can use it again.
Currently working with a large transport authority to build a claims tracking system and create a bespoke Sage integration to track payments and receipts. And I’m not that smart dude and I don’t even feel like an adult in my forties.
We offer ongoing support to all our clients and genuinely do what’s right and fair all the time as my boss and the own is an incredible dude and just nice and fair and open.
What do you need to qualify as a software developer job like the one you mention?
No formal qualifications for myself. I was always interested in tinkering and stuff so just gravitated towards that.
To be honest though with undiagnosed adhd (at the time) I bounced around a lot of dead end jobs and got lucky landing a job at Apple where they kinda inspire you to reach your potential. They let me reduce hours to do a couple of bootcamps, more for the networking than the coding as I knew more than a lot of the tutors.
The industry is saturated right now though so it’s hard.
I qualified for my first dev job by being interested in programming, and knowing my way around the command line (Linux is best), git, vim, and Python. practicing with things like leetcode, advent of code, and making things with apps like pelican and pyxel is a great way to ease into it and tread water until you can get that first role.
just don’t let it make you feel helpless. there’s always going to be a lot that you don’t know. taking a deep breath and accepting that is the way towards thriving.
Usually (but not always) a software related college degree and industry experience. If you don’t have the latter, hobby projects and open source contributions help, as long as you can demonstrate it (ie: a repo)
Ymmv, the requirements depend on the company