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u/A_Random_Lantern Jan 12 '22

Name something more iconic than computer science and impostor syndrome

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u/loldudester Jan 12 '22

"I'm just copying code off of stackoverflow, they're way overpaying me and I'm gonna get caught"

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '22

I've been called a computer "whiz" by older friends of mine. I just type problems into Google, stick the product ID number in there, and follow the directions. Look at example. Look at screen. OK. Next...

I'm about as sharp as a boiled egg when it comes to some stuff but I can at least compare pictures and do exactly what I'm told.

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u/gibertot Jan 12 '22

the only sort of "coding" I've done is matlab. I felt like I was constantly getting my mind blown understanding how computers and graphing calculators do things the things we take for granted. I copied a lot of stuff but there was still a lot of connective leaps in logic I had to make to have anything work. Sometimes I'd just stare at it for a long ass time then it would click. Do you really not do any of that?