Re:You're never too old to learn to code
by justin66 on Friday June 08, 2018 @09:48AM
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> If you learn because you 'should' (ie, it's encouraged by others and or/money) you will end up being average at it, at best.
I would venture to guess that where you land on some largely imaginary "calling" scale affects your performance as a coder less than where you fall on the very real intelligence bell curve.
I roll my eyes sometimes when I hear about guys transitioning to software from the hard sciences because of the hype or money or whatever, but there is no denying that some of them have been extremely good at the job, quite a bit better than "average at best."
I would venture to guess that where you land on some largely imaginary "calling" scale affects your performance as a coder less than where you fall on the very real intelligence bell curve.
I roll my eyes sometimes when I hear about guys transitioning to software from the hard sciences because of the hype or money or whatever, but there is no denying that some of them have been extremely good at the job, quite a bit better than "average at best."