As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren’t as familiar with it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

  • I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.
  • cadekat@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    That’s absolutely true. What’s hard and what’s easy in programming is so completely foreign to non-programmers.

    Wait, you can guess my password in under a week but you can’t figure out how to pack a knapsack?