Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way
by dozzie on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:50PM
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Omnius didn't say that this anyone will be good. The same applies to
welders, woodworkers, and all the rest of craftsmen.
Note that there are plenty of programming jobs and tasks that are boring,
repetitive, easy to do, and of little impact to the underlying system, that
really need to be done by human. Things along the lines of modifying a report,
extracting some data on a request from other departments, or adding a button
to an Android application.
Somebody still needs to do them, because they're often virtually impossible to
automate away, but you don't want to waste a really good programmer on
something like that, and a really good programmer usually will not want to do
them either.
Note that there are plenty of programming jobs and tasks that are boring, repetitive, easy to do, and of little impact to the underlying system, that really need to be done by human. Things along the lines of modifying a report, extracting some data on a request from other departments, or adding a button to an Android application.
Somebody still needs to do them, because they're often virtually impossible to automate away, but you don't want to waste a really good programmer on something like that, and a really good programmer usually will not want to do them either.