To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like?
To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like?
I've always been curious as to what "normal" people think programming is like. The wildest theory I've heard is "typing ones and zeroes" (I'm a software engineer)
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Just to give the benefit of the doubt, I don't think they actually think you type in binary, I think "1s and 0s" has become a colloquialism used to refer to "programming languages" or in some cases "digital magic I don't understand." They just don't know the words python, javascript, html, bash, rust, c, c++, c#, F#A# infinity, etc.
I hope.
They've probably seen Assembly code and that looks quite like binary if you don't pay much attention.
I feel like if you don’t know any different assembly will look like any other programming language. Just a bunch of words on lines that you don’t understand.
I appreciate the GYBE reference