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I can't code. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Across this vast Fediverse, I have encountered a trend of people answering questions with esoteric programming language speaking in tongues that I don't understand, including under my own posts. I am a Boomer when it comes to coding and I am only 27. I don't even know where I would start to learn it because programming is so diverse. I want to feel like I know what's going on but I don't. Coding is the future and the future is now and I am lagging severely behind. I guess I'm asking where a bumbling novice like me can learn more about where to start when it comes to programming.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

My biggest problem is figuring out what I want to do with any coding skills. I have none, by the way, and I don't even know where to start.

Some of the usual responses when I state this:

"Automate your work" - I work in Salesforce. Have you seen Salesforce? I'm not a multi faceted systems administrator constantly updating DNS records or working in Active Directory.

"Write a cool app" - What cool app? What is "cool"?

"Open dev tools and look around" - Why? Specifically, why?

Also, learning programming is BORING. Most of the courses I've tried are so so stale and they aaallll end up explaining concepts in the same way.

"This is a fleeble and it holds the sping, the sping tells the plus plus that it must do what the herbug says".

[–] Pleonasm 1 points 1 year ago

So, don't learn to code? If you don't have any reason to and can't find any motivation, maybe it's just not for you.

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