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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by gianni@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
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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.
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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Doesn't help that most software devs don't have the social IQ to feel comfortable saying "no" when they're offered something that they don't feel comfortable with and just try making it work by learning it on the fly, even learning a company enforced format of code layout is often left for new hires to just figure out. If it weren't for how notepad++ has an option to replace tabs with spaces, I'd have screwed my internship over when I figured out that IBM coding (at least at the time) requires all spaces instead of any tabs after a stern talking to from my supervisor!