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 write software in many languages that does the things i want it to do. i understand how to write code that works. most of the time i write software it works on the first few tries. i don’t do a lot of copy pasting. i write functions and use libraries to create things. it’s strange to me, but from what i hear, it’s becoming rare for people to really understand how to make software.
I always like to learn everything from the ground up, so many of these modern ideas just seem like cheating and not helping me learn anything about how it actually works.
if you really want to learn from the ground up you could try playing the game Turing Complete! i recommend.