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.

  • Dnn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    learning programming is BORING

    Then it’s not for you. No shame in that. I don’t understand the notion that everyone is supposed to be a coder now.

    If anything, the low-level coding part is something AI models may well make obsolete relatively soon. Unlike any craftsmanship - why not learn masonry or carpentry instead?

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      1 year ago

      I’m not giving up a 20+ year career in IT just because I haven’t yet found a way to learn how to code.

      There’s more than one way to teach a subject and it would be nice to have even a basic understanding of the mess I am supposed to be supporting,

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        1 year ago

        Why do you want to learn how to code?

        Is it purely to get a better understanding of how salesforce works “under the hood”?

        (I’m looking for context because I don’t know anything about salesforce but I do know how to code)

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            1 year ago

            Gotcha, maybe you don’t necessarily have to be a coder to understand those products better.

            Simply being curious and having conversations with devs will probably get you far.