What was the biggest lies you heard about programming or programmers life.

Mine was: “programming is easy and high paying job.”
No it is not.

Easy? No.

High paying job? That's conditional, and usually just depends where you go.

Also, high paying is 100% opinion based.

To someone working minimum wage (in NC it's $7.75), a salary of $30k is likely to be seen as high paying. But for me, I don't think that's very high paying, considering my rent will range from somewhere around $750+.

@DudeCoder whats up with randomly mentioning android in the middle of a sentence?

@DudeCoder when you typed "nothing is easy and nothing is hard" it autocorrected to Android instead of and lol.

Took me a second to understand your comment, but I got it.

@DudeCoder

@DudeCoder not even an Android developer lol. I just type it so much it's often suggested (in the top bar of the gboard) instead of and lol

You need to learn calculus to be a programmer. My math education goes up to Trig and Statistics but I skipped Calculus and I'm fine. Now Algebra? That is an absolute need to learn.

Can't really comment on lifestyle really. I don't know of any given stereotypes.

@starrynights89 Idk if you took some advanced stats classes or not, but I just finished taking intro stats. And holy shit that's the easiest "math" class I ever took.

The most math I did was mean/median/mode/range with a few other things just kinda sprinkled in lmao.

@starrynights89 i have a friend 31 years old, finished his cs phd in 2017, very smart man and he never uses math in programming.

i think the only time you need to know math is if you want to be a data scientist or work in ai field

all programmers have higher IQ.

no. some of them, but not all

The only thing missing from that is the "pick one" at the end.

code once and run anywhere frameworks... *cough*

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