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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 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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[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

I mean the classic is that you must be "really good at computers" like I'm okay at debugging, just by being methodical, but if you plop me in front of a Windows desktop and ask me to fix your printer; brother, I haven't fucked with any of those 3 things in over a decade.

I would be as a baby, learning everything anew, to solve your problem.

[–] Batbro@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I go to excuse now is "I haven't used windows in 10 years", when people call me for tech support.

I literally can't help them lol

[–] sjpwarren@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago

"I don't know anything about your apple device, I prefer to own my devices and not have somone else dictate what I can use it for"

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