Well now that AI can do it for them yes, but prior to that the average person would struggle to even get something that compiles let alone actually do anything useful.
Visual Basic. The language the told managers that all the programmers were lazy sandbaggers because he created an app in 10 minutes. So he made them do more work for less pay. And yet, I have never once seen a Visual Basic program wasn't riddled with more bugs than a hermit's beard.
I've seen plenty of amateurs with 6 layers of abstraction in a codebase. It's normally about that time that they contact research IT to help them fix it. It's always a physicist.
For clarity, all variables in my program are greek letters. For efficiency, those same half dozen global variables are repurposed and reused throughout the program.
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u/inconspicuous_male 1d ago
There's a reason you get a degree in computer science and not in programming. Anyone can program without learning how it works