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’m in the same boat as you. The GUI thing doesn’t interest me. And I end up knowing “basic to intermediate” knowledge of a few different languages because, when you get right down to it, once your somewhat familiar with one object oriented language, the others fall in line pretty quickly.
I find that for learning, I have to have a project to be working on. I can’t just sit and do exercises about classes, tuplets, and all that crap. I need to be able to say "okay…I want to make x do x on this project I’m working on…and then troll around the internet to figure out how to do it.