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Off Topic => General Interest => Topic started by: leeor_net on October 11, 2016, 01:43:03 PM

Title: Programming is Hard
Post by: leeor_net on October 11, 2016, 01:43:03 PM
As a side note and a sort of educational response to my rant about how users seem to think programming isn't that hard (http://forum.outpost2.net/index.php/topic,5869.0.html), I wanted to post this article I came across. It explains very well how and why programming is a difficult task and why we shouldn't be afraid to label it as hard.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/programming-is-hard
Title: Re: Programming is Hard
Post by: Hooman on October 11, 2016, 03:46:29 PM
Interesting read. Some good points in there. Makes me rethink advice I've given.


Also funny you should post that just now. I was just dropping by the forums to drop a link to something I just read:
How It Feels To Learn JavaScript in 2016 (https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-
d3a717dd577f#.esjge1dyl)

That pretty much sums up the web development courses I was taking a few months ago.


I also just read the related article on deployments: It's the Future (https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/)

Also sounds about right.
Title: Re: Programming is Hard
Post by: leeor_net on October 11, 2016, 06:08:50 PM
That "It's the future" article was cringe worthy. That was a difficult read... and only because I've had conversations like that before where my eyes glaze over and I effectively just tell the 'consultant' or, in many cases, the just graduated compsci major to piss off.