What do programmers actually do? 

So basically you killed someone, but you dont know how?

@@alptunga and you're the victim aswell

The fact that you are looking for the mistake you actually made. lol

Sometimes the whole software is not running just because of a comma or a semi-colon

and a Victim...

10% coding, 20% googling, 70% debugging

10% coding, 30% StackOverflow, 60% debugging

100% StackOverflow

Jason Walker 80 % making cofee

Debugging shouldn't take nearly that much of your time if you're an experienced programmer. Only about 20% of my process is debugging, the most time is spent planning and doing the equations & pseudocode on paper...but I'm in scientific computing, not software development.

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🤣🤣 You are a true programmer.

Yup

Or when you add a thing and it just runs without errors.

@@fefeisbored1958 Or when you write something and it runs just as you expected the first time you hit Run.

Those are rare but when it happens ouuuu

Dude it feels like I just got $1,000,000 when that happens. Only problem is that it’s as rare as getting $1,000,000 :/

@@gray.dog6 lol I feel ya'

I ban the customers if they manage to reach engineering...

Whether they like it or don't, most don't speak with customers. There's other job roles that are more geared towards that. If you speak with a customer it'll be most likely be an engineer from another company who's a customer.

Everyone would be thrilled to not have to talk to customers, including the costumer service department.

LOLOL, Is this a joke?! I've been working in IT going on 8 years now and that is exactly _why_ I'm learning to code...*so I don't have to talk to users/customers anymore!!* They are the WORST.

This is the very reason I got into coding, 28 yrs and counting as a floor nurse, I can't wait to graduate and I look forward the solitude

No they fix your printer, and hack facebook accounts.

>Reddit

stackexchange

"The mouse isn't working, can you fix this for me?" - every programmer's parents

Devrant > reddit

Do experienced/hired programmers also do it? I read a lot about people struggling, sitting and reading code for hours, trying to solve stuff.

100% copy paste from stackoverflow hahaha

@@Surtur99 If something does show up that they do not know of, even if they are experienced, they often search it up as they learn from it. Learning is continuous no matter what your profession. Often there is someone who knows more than you do, they post it on google, the programmer looks it up and learns :D

Yes, Google is often the fastest way into some specific documentation you put php explode, java replace all, net Tasks.WhenAll and get straight to the right docs. Also, it is very common to check documentation even for the simplest common APIs, because it's impossible and inefficient to memorize all the tiny details behind them, for example indexOf in most languages returns -1 if not found, but some might throw an exception. Some functions throw exception and fail loudly others just returns null, it's messy. The docs also has detailed information about the parameters and how the function will behave in special scenarios, tiny things you cannot simply guess or be expected to keep memorized In short yes, no matter how long you've been programming, research is a tightly related skill.

Who needs google if you have brain...

Dipping down is the worst. I actually don't mind the users if I get enough time to talk with them directly. I like to see how people do their jobs and its fun to fix their agony. I feel like a superhero. But I've also had a CEO in my cube making arbitrary decisions for dynamic content on the main page as I code it for her and deploy to prod real time on a 100K users/day website. I agree about the dipping down part.

hello fellow procrastinator

Same

Lol same here

Hello my friend

thealbinolizard literally me ALL the time. Please help me overcome this.

I wouldn't be able to do my job if stackoverflow didn't exist actually.

stack overflow is my saviour haha

Glad Rose-Hulman is preparing me in that department too, because it feels like that 100% of the time!

Me, basically lmao.

Pretty accurate

LOL

That sounds about right...LOL

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😂🤣

so fokin true Edit:you forgot that we just hang out on reddit and shitpost a lot

where's eating

I'm feeling sad for the person that programmed stackoverflow

Exactly

Me when coding: 100% giving up

Also occasionally watch youtube videos about "What do programmers actually do?"

yeah it's all Boolean...conditional day dream

hmmm... stereotypes... I type 82 wpm, and i will not stop typing until my script is done.

God damn this is spot on lol.

Maybe they write a couple of lines of code, then hit pornhub for an hour, go back to code, and repeat. No, I wouldn't know... ha-ha

I usually just wait for someone on a StackOverFlow thread.

while trying our best never to write any documentation of our own

That's certainly a part of the job... doesn't overshadow other aspects such as Q&A or refactoring, but it's significant. It's one of my favorite aspects because with documentation comes fresh knowledge and that's where the job never stagnates.

What programers do : stackoverflow.com/ "copy" -> "paste"

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haha that's so funny

I'm an IT tech and my mantra is "its the program."

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Gerrit Großkopf break the problem down into solvable pieces

@@Emily-fm7pt covid-19 looks like a hard solution at least we may learn a lesson from that and start a real change

*programs benevolent SkyNet to overthrow all human governments and lead world into a new age of enlightenment*

@@ninjafruitchilled Error 404 Skynet crashed Immediate civil war

Muhammad Jācir 😂

Speak for yourself.

If you relate to this, please forget everything you have learned, and learn it all again from something/someone reputable.

Everyone’s gotta consult the man at some point.

Suddenly we need to use different language.. lol

So how do they create Google?

Why ?

Too late... 😐

Advantage in CS, data structures n algo, math a lot, mostly u learn concept instead of code

dave, ABSOLUTELY. I have a masters in hardware but 100% self taught in software. When I started in 1979, I learned on my own through publications like Popular Electronics, but I quickly discovered there was always one component in any “build this” project that I couldn’t get my hands on so I started designing my own stuff (all discrete, resistors, diodes, transistors, etc), but then I got restless and wanted to learn CPUs so Z80, here I come! But then I realized I couldn’t program anything I designed so the next step was learning Assembly. I learned to code in BASIC as well and was writing games for the TRS-80 in 1980. I wrote my own versions of popular arcade games like Tron and Warlords. It wasn’t until after grade school that I went for the degree (graduated in 1983) but by then I already had a very good groundwork laid in electronics. Well, here it is 40 years later and I’m STILL doing this sh... er stuff! PS, not a silly question!

edgar sarmiento, why? Because customers will NAG and nitpick you about every piece of code or functionality in the project.. “can you make it do this?”, “I’d prefer it did that.”

So anyone can become a basic programmer and just use stack overflow?

@@Anomalyy666 dont listen them, if it was that way do u think how many people want to be programmerrs ? you need to study very much !

@@batka5024 actually I am looking for backend developer roles (fresher).I am just eager to know how really people are working in IT sector, everyone here is commenting 1%code,50%stack overflow,49%debug....I am really confused .are these guys are kidding or is this a situation really happening. Thanks in advance brother !

@@karna9156 Dont trust everythink u read on the internet, ofcourse programming its not that like the comment, u need to work very hard to succseed for it jobs this days. for me its 98% coding and the rest are others thinks. work hard get good reward have a nice day

@@batka5024 thank you for the kind reply bro ! Have a nice day 💥

😂😂😂

Play with inspect element

You talk serious about it lmao. 😂

nasa, if you read this your hacked

नासाच्या आईची गांड,

better than who?

Gus Maia Better than an average person.

it's so true though xd

*what about the programmers who made Google*

@@paimonbutter they are legends

This is why I hated working in open plan offices and preferred cubicles. A number of times I had to lock myself in an empty room for 2-3 hours when working on a particularly complex piece of code because any distraction at all would set me back. Plus in a cubicle you can personalise your workspace more, and have places to hang up reference sheets.

I mean, programming is like writing a _novel._ You need your own head space, to let your own mind work, and your own body to translate that into something consistent. However, you only work with others as a necessity, if you want to write a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really big novel. Plus, most programmers being introverts, it's kinda natural. lol

Yeah I feel like "you have to work alone to work best", isn't a question I could give a yes or no answer to, because it really depends on what is meant by that. I mean, in order to work effectively on anything large, you absolutely need to be able to work well with others. This is a cooperative business by its very nature. Very, very rarely you'll get some kind of programming genius with terrible social skills, and have a manager act as an interface layer between them and everyone else, but that's extremely rare to the point of being almost non-existent. On the other hand, when it comes to actually sitting down to do programming/debugging work, some people definitely do need to be alone to get into a flow state and be their most productive. I'm certainly one of those people, when I have to do any serious coding it's time to get some good music on the headphones and just block out the outside world. I understand the logic behind it, but working in one of those places where they do pair programming would be my worst nightmare, I just can't concentrate with someone hovering over my shoulder.

Ben Wilson I cannot agree more!

What one programmer can do in a week, two programmers can do in two weeks.

You need to research more into art

maybe

More like magic

True

love both programming and art. Both are creative.

And depression.

bad eyes

But its worth it cause its cool!!!

Don't forget about disappointment

Luckily there are pills for most of that, and caffeine for overclocking.

pretty sure he was just joking...

Speak for yourself, Mr. php

Is OK to copy things that already work. But come on Lol you gotta put the effort into your own code 😁

and who writes the codes on stackoverflow in the first place? Guess programmers.

Lol

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I have found that I can code my way into depression and anxiety.

Put it in rice.

Also: How to .... in *Programing Language*

god bless google for destroying imagination, and intuition

We use stackoverflow

Not really. It just saves me from keeping lots of information in my head that is better used for other things :)

HOW DO I JAVA. HOW DO I C#. HOW DO I NODEJS. UNIT TEST HOW. BAD MERGE FIX HOW.

I completely agree

Dávid Semperger 100% accurate

bugs??? or features??? :D

Well, considering that your coffee already contains some bugs in it...

And turn bugs into coffee.. lol

coffee --> code --> features --> bugs --> frustration --> coffee. Rinse and repeat.

me too high five 🖐👨‍💻

mouhamd Agoumi hack you tonight

True teamwork as a programmer is a fantasy

Programming is like League of Legends, it really depends on the team and every mistake is YOUR fault alone

Sure Lock lol

I want to be your friend. You got your ducks in a row and everything. XD

Wow you definitely get laid

you get ducks for fixing bugs? I just get more bug tickets :[

yea for every bug you fix you create 2 more. it is a delicate business.

I read that book :-) Talking to one duck wasn't enough for you? You had to go get more?

I talked to Richard Stallman about this one time. What makes what you've typed into "code"? It was a strange discussion. Is there some magic that turns "something someone typed" into "code worthy of copyright protection"? We didn't come to a conclusion, but it was a good discussion.

I think the linking book was an analogy for how it felt for the game developers to create Myst. Those games were a big influence on me getting into coding, and now I'm a software engineer!

We really like 'artificial' so much Artificial World Artificial Preservatives Artificial Intelligence and even f***ing *Artificial Love* ?

my best friend from college, with a doctorate in physics, did the same thing. (and his name is Paul.)

I'm a software engineer (I should say bachelor of Science too with honours) that dabbles in the physics side (see my channel). both side have their plus's

So would you say it would be a bad decision to major in physics then? I'm a senior in high school and right now I'm planning on double majoring in physics and applied math but I'm not sure if that would be a big mistake. I don't enjoy computer science as much and I seem to be much better at more math-heavy subjects but I don't want to regret not majoring in it later. Your responses would be much appreciated.

Stephen Naus I've been pondering this exact same thing for a while.

Paul that's very nice Paul

I work on cool stuff

Lucky you. :)

get another job, there is plenty of cool stuff

I second the get another job sentiment. Software developers are in very high demand. Don't settle for data entry and reporting, if that's not your cup of tea.

Yes, most of us do that. But a few of us have to create the original software to be updated. BTW, when is your next presentation? [Rubs hands together gleefully]

most of us programmers don't like that either, which is part of why a larger percentage of us use linux and not windows

ClockworkHex I don't know about most of us... I wouldn't dream of coding without Windows around. Though I love Linux VMs for coding environments and Linux on the server.

Windows is simply superior to Linux in every way. Linux is a great system for personal use, but for professional environments..... Windows is the way to go if you want to be taken seriously.

You trippin

hi Sir, do you mind if I message You, I have a question about working remotely.. I appreciate it in advance, thank you kindly ..

Are you my favourite John Casey from the NSA?

I like that. a series on what anybody actually does.

Take bribes on Net Neutrality?

old childish rhyme: "Pro is opposite of Con. This fact is plainly seen. If progress means to go forward, then what does congress mean?"

For the curious: The answer depends on who you ask, really. The most common idea in Poli Sci is that members act in ways that maximize their chances of reelection. They do this by claiming credit for things like getting funding for a fire department, by advertising their existence to their constituents via social media and meetings, and by taking positions on social issues. Others agree with this general idea but also hold that members pursue legislation with goals depending on the committees they serve on and/or their ambition. It may be hard to believe, but a lot of evidence shows that politicians try to push policy that they think that their voting constituents (and sometimes constituents more generally) will benefit from. Others still show that they pursue policies in-line with their ideological beliefs (conditional on what is tractible given the current political moment). But! Interestingly, a lot of good evidence shows that they aren't as easily bought as people think, but they are reliant on the "expertise" (both real and artificial) of their staff and external sources (including outside businesses/lobbying groups but also bureaucrats as well). They're also much more wed to the party line due to a combination of gerrymandering, activism from think-tanks and party activists in general, and rule changes that happened in the 70s but we're catalyzed in the 90s.

idk man just watch house of cards maybe you learn something

Ser Noisy I c what you did there

nice prologue, but I'm here for the clojure

@Jonah Mann QUESTION: Which mountain is 8 times taller than Velebit? ANSWER: Velebyte (Yes, there is a mountain called Velebit)

aaaaa a *python* is attacking me

Double pun... deserves a like

The pun came along Swift as a stealthy Python.

i c++ what you did there

Glad you don't have a lisp.

Oh, can I have a Go?

starmoon1987 It's probably good you can C# if your Objective is to C

Jared Davidson they make the stuff that tells the thing which makes the stuff that tells the things how to behave.

Spamme Loop - Last name checks

OMG it’s Jared!

Hi there jared

Ladies and gentlemen, what passes in the US for deftly understated irony.

Yes. Drinking coffee NOW and was learning about dynamic programming this afternoon.

Also pizza!

Bin man

This, almost everyone i know who went to college to get a degree never actually gets a job using that degree. For me college is the biggest rip off. I known a guy who had like every technical degree you can have and still didn't have a job in it. Problem is most jobs require degree's also require years of experience, if your not already in the field or have close friends who are, your wasting your time. Good luck ever paying off what you paid to get those degree's.

British Blue admin for a computer company. But don’t worry too much. Not everyone will end up like me. Everyone’s chances are different. My advice? Start looking for career opportunities a few months before you graduate. Just put yourself out there and someone will eventually bite.

Welcome to life! I'm a physicist who's just been doing this software stuff for 20 years to pay the bills :) The physics stuff comes in handy more than you'd think, error analysis, stats, differential equations, combinatorics, it's all blended in there somewhere.

+zengrath The thing with Computer Science, is that there's a divide between theory and the frameworks. Theory is what makes you a _scientist_ and if you want to be the one designing all the cool algorithms, you want this. However, if you become a developer/code-monkey, you don't need much theory in your daily life, but instead, you need to learn technologies, languages etc., so that you can apply them _practically,_ and _efficiently_ and that is something that you have to learn outside a University, on your own. That's the reality, a CS degree is basically meaningless for "jobs", if you can't code the things that you know.

No no, things graduate from bug to feature only when you *are* tired! Or if you work at Apple...

b work

You will never get a job if you code like that mate

Arun Woosaree while(!doneprogram) { If(tired) { Coffee++; } Else if((apple.employee && bug) || (google. Employee && feature.new)) { Cout

you can't just capitalize keywords like that

3 years later, how are you now? :)

@@chewingwildflower yeah even i am curious to know :)

Oi, how’s it going now?? Hopefully things have worked out well

An excellent guess.

mostly I write documentation. Well...that's the snarky answer. Actually I write software to control satellite systems. Or turn coffee into hardware...whatever :D

Good documentation has saved many a project! Poor documentation has caused many a near stroke...

Uriah Siner I was going to comment the same thing but I was a bit late (8 hours). Great minds think alike !!

And drink coffee. We also talk to rubber ducks, but mostly during infinite loops.

Haha!

LOL..

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What programmers actually do is read documentation, try to understand what the code they're looking at actually does, and then like 10% of the time is actually writing new code.

Link, The Hero of Winds Why not both?! You can double major!

The right answer is both. Then you can program quantum physics (a really useful and interesting field). My philosophy is : when in doubt, always take the non it major and learn code yourself. If you’re good enough you will be in a good position as software requires knowledge of the field to be done properly.

You will learn the basics of coding in a physics degree and many employers will take physics/math/computer science as valid degrees to hire from for entry level programming jobs. Pursue what interests you the most as that'll drive you to keep working, $ doesn't motivate as well in the long term...

Quantum physics seems so iffy ( :) )

Do both. I'm studying Physics with a minor in Computer Science. I know people that do it the other way. It's a fantastic combo.

"Programming is the ultimate computer game" nicely said

Also the most difficult, I guess...

go to hackerant and you see different difficulty of "games"

N7492 you play games against your own abilites.

Riemann hypothesis? I'll try a brute force approach. If that doesn't work I'll use some hillclimbing search. It will be done by next Monday!

halting problem ;)

Go do it, now, just do it!

Or try P Vs NP

traveling salesman

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Another pythoGUY

Cjphonehome Cheat I do c++ now

True is easier to read and understand than just the Boolean index

Wrong syntax.

Ya think?

Star Dusk Tornado

what!?!?!

Diverse group of ladies... Are you even hearing it yourself?

What do you mean? I can't tell if you're criticizing diction or criticizing calling them diverse?

skyfall final scene with Q in the basement

IC what you did there.

Ah, but who *writes* those Stack Overflow answers in the first place? :P

magical creatures living in a mist of caffeine, that's the only explanation I see.

IceMetalPunk It's a recursive abomination. It's copy pasta all the way down.

IceMetalPunk Nobody. They're all copied and pasted. The only ones you actually see are the ones of the programmers who's computers survived.

Most of my previous job involved answering questions on SO *instead* of actually doing my job.

Christian really? If it is we are pretty bad at magic.

So you're saying... I'm a wizard, Harry?! :D

Elf Friend... "rocks with lightning in them" is the coolest way to describe a computer I've ever heard, and I would like to only use that phrase for them from now on. But people would think I'm crazy and wouldn't hire me :(

Programming in assembly code *is* magic.

Can I give like 5 thumbs up on this? :-)

Andrew Tompsett i am?

Chuck Fickens so... You build hardwares?

You rarely see positive comments as a software engineer either. In fact interaction with the people paying for the software can be one of the worst aspects of the job. Not so much the end users, as the managers who think that because they are in charge, they know more about software design than the programmers. But then I worked almost exclusively on bespoke rather than commercial software.

any alteratives too 19inch racks?

Abi Rizky I think they mean operating systems.

Chuck Fickens my old professor used to be a system architect for NASA and Lockheed Martin. He absolutely loved his job. Awesome guy too.

Karim Jamal-Eddine maybe you think you love programming and physics but it's just a "compensation" mechanism because you are not sure about your interior architecture decision