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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by gianni@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev

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As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren't as familiar with it. It doesn't happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do.

I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences. So, I thought it would be interesting to ask.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That it's dry and boring and even I must hate it because there's no place for creativity in a technical field.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The best programmers I know are all super creative. You can't solve real world problems with the limited tools available to us without creativity.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've been listening to stuff you missed in history class pod from the beginning and whenever something about computers, science or tech comes up they start being like hush hush don't worry we won't actually talk about it; as if the mere mention will scare away listeners