Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving
by 908B64B197 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:53PM
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> I've thought about this since the early part of this year when a middle manager in my company's Communications department dismissively told me that she could do my job because, "I know code." What does that even mean?
It's a signal to look for a better position somewhere else.
Sounds like you work at a company that considers tech to be "the easy part" or a cost center...
Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving
by jonathanlydall on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:34PM
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> I've thought about this since the early part of this year when a middle manager in my company's Communications department dismissively told me that she could do my job because, "I know code." What does that even mean?
Frustrating. And I know how to read and write, but it doesn’t mean I could write a decent novel.
What a lot of people don’t understand about software development is that for any non-trivial project, “coding” is the easy part, the real challenge is in the managing of complexity.
> We're teaching kids to code, and next week they'll all be billionaires!
Sure, that's not true. But they will gain a better understanding of how to organize and process information. This understanding will help them even if they don't end up in a software engineering career.
Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving
by 908B64B197 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:51PM
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But think of all the social networks they could launch!
Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving
by sombremesa on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:45PM
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> The (sic) present themselves as if a week in a makeshift classroom is all it takes to compile and deploy a Swift app.
Even if it were, that'd still be a far cry from becoming a billionaire from nil in a week.
Macromedia Dreamweaver was the big inflection point because the results could be deployed on the web, for anyone to see, regardless of what box they were running.
The problem I have is that it devalues the worth of actual programmers by making everyone think what we do is easy. It isn't. I see this all the time with do-gooder charities on TV "We're teaching kids to code, and next week they'll all be billionaires!" The present themselves as if a week in a makeshift classroom is all it takes to compile and deploy a Swift app.
I've thought about this since the early part of this year when a middle manager in my company's Communications department dismissively told me that she could do my job because, "I know code." What does that even mean?