Re:Hard Truths about Programming
by ivraatiems on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:09PM
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To be honest, I think in this case it might be just you. Not everyone - and perhaps in this case not most people - experience(s) the things listed here same way you do. (As a corollary, just because you find something obvious doesn't mean most people or everybody does.)
Plus, you're not really disagreeing with the points raised. You're just providing one point of anecdata, your personal experience, and saying "yeah this can't be right."
Agreed, learning programming (even in great classes under great guidance) is obtuse if not largely inaccessible to lots of people I know or have heard of.
actually 1 example contrary to a "truth" is enough to disprove it :)
Yes it is a weird article!
"It’s all about connections" I have restarted life in several different regions and countries with absolutely NO connections, and I always found fair IT jobs with fair salaries.
Re:Hard Truths about Programming
by javabean22 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @06:09PM
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Getting a job maintaining a horrible legacy application or doing soul crushing consulting gigs and GOOD money is easy. Getting a job with a really good tech-driven company and a GREAT pay is hard.
Re:Hard Truths about Programming
by xxxdarrenxxx on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:38PM
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First rule off the internet..
You are on the internet.
The magical place where people all over the world unite.
"Job search in tech is extra long and frustrating." What planet are they on?
You might be on to something here. Could it be.. we all live in different places, with different cultures, mindsets, experience, perception, laws, one in a city, one in the middle off nowhere.
cap'n out.
Re:Hard Truths about Programming
by user5994461 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:08PM
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Basically, you live in SF and she doesn't.
"Learning programming is hard" I just kinda rolled into it as I grew up.
"Self-directed learning is hard" It's automatic for me. I'm interested in things.
"Attending one workshop or a couple won’t turn you into a professional developer." Well yeah. Does anyone think a couple workshops turn you into a professional blacksmith?
"It takes time: You won’t become an developer in 3 months." Fair enough, though I think if you study full-time, have fun doing it, and have a friend helping you a few evenings a week, you can probably be good enough for a junior position by 3 months.
"Finding your first developer job is hard." Is it? Haven't heard that from people.
"Finding any kind of first job in tech is hard." Yeah this definitely isn't.
"Tech interviews are terrifying." Not really. I'm generally nervous for interviews, but not more than is healthy I think.
"Job search in tech is extra long and frustrating." What planet are they on? I hear bad stories about people that did psychology as a study, but tech?!
"Some people won’t make it." Fair enough.
I've stopped reading there because I just can't see what the author is getting at. Is this just me? Or is it perhaps applicable to Silicon Valley specifically, where developers are abundant (are they?)?