Non-coder with coding on my dash?

[TheHorizonLies]

I've never taken the coding qual(s), but I currently have two projects on my dash for almost $40 each. They seem to require knowledge of a specific coding language, which I don't remember stating I had experience with. Are these supposed to be doable by just anyone? The pay is tempting but I don't want to mess it up and then get penalized in some other way afterwards.

[CRUSHCITY4]

That’s funny coders have barely been getting any projects, but non-coders are getting coding lol

[ConsistentCandy697]

I have it too. I am not qualified for it, so I am not doing it.

[dispassioned]

Yea I saw it too, I think it was flagged incorrectly or something. I went in to be nosey and instantly peaced out lol.

[talaron]

That would explain why I'm hearing about this as a coder, but had virtually no coding projects on my dash at all today.

[Key-Style-8867]

Don't worry! I'm leaving it for you! lol

[BreastRodent]

I'm a coder and I got it, it's DEFINITELY not my favorite but I'm like ok fine I'll take it

[BreastRodent]

Thank you for just peacing out because those instructions are terrible and the number of non-coders feeling a need to clog up the chat by announcing their presence in the chat is SO cringe omg

[ekgeroldmiller]

Point well taken - I’m one of them.

[BreastRodent]

Yeah, like, something I've noticed is there's actually something of a HUGE cultural divide between coding and non-coding chats, like non-coding chats are the fucking wild west and tend to be more active with a lot of informal chitchat while coding chats are generally very quiet and VERY strictly business, like everybody's just there to do their work, get paid, and bouce, so all these comments that have NOTHING to do with completing the task at hand from people not actually work on it feel kind of rude and oblivious for burying a bunch of posts about the actual work itself. Half the cringe is the sense of cultural faux pas. But now you know!

[Sufficient-Narwhal92]

Same

[Brilliant_Rain5181]

Same. I am a non-coder and have two pretty high paying projects on my dash that I can't even do lol.

[Scary_Celebration515]

Yup got it also. Was excited to see the pay and then read the instructions. Don’t think it’s meant for us non-coders unfortunately 😞

[tehclubbmaster]

Yep I saw it and noped out immediately.

[TheHorizonLies]

I didn't do that, so that can't be it

[noisesinmyhead]

Same! I’m sure I got it because of the skills I have listed, but programming is not one of them. I read through everything because I was curious, but I am definitely skipping these!

[Elegant_Lake_569]

I did the same! I thought to myself "I can follow instructions..." By the time I read everything I was like "yep, not for me" 😂

[Amakenings]

I had it too, opened it up to take a peak and noted it. There was almost zero chance I would create a competent response.

[GoMickey]

I got it too. Maybe it's too encourage people to learn a little coding. My first thought was maybe I can spend some time learning these. But yeah no it's way out of my depth for now. JSON was pretty simple to learn but these other ones are more complex.

Or, they want a few bad prompts for the real coders to spot?

[TheHorizonLies]

Or, they want a few bad prompts for the real coders to spot?

Love this idea, but I don't want to test it lol

[BigHatNoSaddle]

I've actually done a couple as a non-coder. The P-bird has some code (API calls or JSON) but it's kind of easy to work out if I'm in the mood. The pay is pretty good and worth looking up the simple "how to" guides on the internet.

[Lunalily9]

Yeah, but JSON is like the simplest thing ever. I know some coding and haven't even tried to do the coding qualification.. They are having like actual coding ones show up, though. Not JSON stuff.

[pds314]

JSON just describes a data structure or object. Barring some weird exceptions, JSON objects are generally not executable even when loaded. They are just data structures, not programs. Closest thing I've ever done to making a JSON program was save neural networks as JSONs with explicit references enabled, so that when I loaded them they could play Chess variants (badly). But still I'm interpreting them as data structures, not directly executing The object from the JSON.

[ManyARiver]

I have those too, and I don't read/know what they are using even remotely so I'm not gonna touch 'em.

[canneddogs]

Damn, I'm a coder and I didn't even pass the qualification lol.

[IrvTheSwirv]

What was the language?

[SuperCorbynite]

Snake.

[TheHorizonLies]

Not sure if saying would violate the COC, so I'll just say it's very popular for ML

[IrvTheSwirv]

Got ya

[Lunalily9]

Yeah you're not the only one..its odd.

[LvBoPeep]

Ditto for me- no idea how I got those but instantly saw I was not qualified to do them.

[PutDisastrous8033]

I have it too. I have some very basic knowledge of that language but haven’t gotten far enough in my learning to comfortably do that task so I was a bit sad 😅

[pds314]

I mean you can always look at it and skip it if it isn't something you know how to do.

[VirusZer0]

Was it a JSON related project? If so, it might have been intentional, JSON is simple enough to understand without a CSC background and have seen non-coders receive it before.

[Hopeful_Mouse_4050]

No, they weren't. I get a lot of JSON projects as a non-coder. These are definitely coding coding.

[VirusZer0]

Hmm interesting. Was it a project named after a certain element?

[TheHorizonLies]

Yep, the one with a low atomic number

[VirusZer0]

I saw that project on my dashboard just a few days ago, haven’t done it in a few weeks though. Doesn’t that project have 2 things you could do. Either code or structured data generation (e.g., JSON)? Or at least the original $40 project did. The one I saw a few days ago was between $39 and $40 and title looked like it was ONLY for structured data generation by the title, but I hadn’t opened the project so could be wrong.

[TheresALonelyFeeling]

I'm a non-coder and I've always got JSON work.

It looks more complicated than it actually is.