I’ve always been curious as to what “normal” people think programming is like. The wildest theory I’ve heard is “typing ones and zeroes” (I’m a software engineer)

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Just to give the benefit of the doubt, I don’t think they actually think you type in binary, I think “1s and 0s” has become a colloquialism used to refer to “programming languages” or in some cases “digital magic I don’t understand.” They just don’t know the words python, javascript, html, bash, rust, c, c++, c#, F#A# infinity, etc.

    I hope.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      They’ve probably seen Assembly code and that looks quite like binary if you don’t pay much attention.

      • Chobbes@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        I feel like if you don’t know any different assembly will look like any other programming language. Just a bunch of words on lines that you don’t understand.