I have tried for 20 years to get into coding, and among adhd and having 10 million other projects going on, just could never get it beyond absolute basics and knowing some differences between languages.

Now it seems every tutorial I see is really just clicking around in a gui. Very little actual typing of code, which is the part I actually find cool and interesting.

So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do? Is it copying and pasting tons of code? Is it fixing small bugs in Java for a website like “the drop down field isn’t loading properly on this form”?

I just dont get what “a full stack developer sufficient in sql and python” actually does. Also i dont know if that sentence even made sense!

  • TheV2@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    “Coding” is a huge world and in my opinion in today’s world the term “coder” is too abstract to mean anything in practice (other than someone who writes code among other things). What we mostly share is really just the basics. You can improve your fundamental knowledge that will help you learn, understand and navigate through the differences quicker.

    But not just from field to field or job to job, but even from just one task to another task, a coding session can be totally different from another. The “actual typing of code” is just one mechanism.

    If I understand you correctly and you’re specifically interested in the act of typing code and understanding what it does, then maybe you might be more into coding puzzles or you could learn more about algorithm design. Else, if your goal is to see more output by coding, then progress and experience is the only way. I don’t have ADHD, but I have difficulties in finishing personal coding projects, too. Coding for work definitely helped with that. Before that, the biggest improvement I found was to use more Git (/version control in general). Helped me a lot to organize and see my progress.