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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Funny you should say that as I was thinking that the idea that math has anything to do with programming is the biggest misconprehension I encounter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey we did all sort of crazy shit with linear algebra, vectors matrices and shit in college programmlng. Now I sometimes do some basic arithmetic in work life. E.g:

n = n + 1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Sometimes, very rarely, I tell my squad that today's our unlucky day and we're actually going to have to do math to the problem.