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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by jrm2k6 on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @07:36PM (#13274891)
This is exactly how I reacted when reading that line. Everybody can become a developer, yes. Everybody can become a good developer quickly, most likely not, and that applies also to people coming out with a formal education in CS, not only bootcampers.

I don't understand fully why so many people think that about coding, but not about other fields, like cooking/building/who knows.

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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @08:04PM (#13274996)
Money.
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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by jrm2k6 on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @09:01PM (#13275208)
Could explain it. I think also easy access to information/tutorials/affordability for self-learning?
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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by lbotos on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:46AM (#13275849)
People have just as much access via youtube for cooking tutorials but people are _not_ flocking to be chefs. For the cost of a Macbook you can definitely get a pretty decent kitchen + laptop and also literally feed yourself delicious meals... it's the money that brings people to tech. Full stop. I always tell my friends that I got lucky that my passion also happened to pay well. Because if I wanted to be a chef, the road is much harder to make the same money.
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