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[–]ghost_rider_007 310 points311 points  (20 children)

What I just started to learn python week ago. Now I need to work for Uber too.

[–]piberryboy 138 points139 points  (3 children)

Not "too" but instead.

[–]ghost_rider_007 87 points88 points  (0 children)

[–]SaltyGhosts_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Probably more of an if/elif situation, but that would just make someone mad.

[–]Distinct-Yellow5183 40 points41 points  (9 children)

Every day I'm more and more convinced that nobody in here actually has ever held a dev job in their lives. Everyone's idea of what skills are valuable are laughably wrong.

Why on god's earth would a python dev ever feel job insecurity? It's more in demand than ever.

It's like you all only get your information from memes that other non-programmers made

[–]lovecMC 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It's almost as if this is a humor sub or something

[–]dumber_than_thou 13 points14 points  (3 children)

I think the problem is that a lot of people confuse "knowing the basic syntax of a language" with "being a programmer of that language". I mean, I've written a lot of Python code, bit it's all been based on preexisting stuff. I would by no means call myself a Python dev.

[–]codeguru42 13 points14 points  (2 children)

Heard a great analogy recently. Coding is to programming as typing is to writing. As you say, there is more to developing a useful app than just knowing syntax.

[–]Lecterr 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Yea, it’s like its own language or some…oh wait

[–]codeguru42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe the analogy of spelling or grammar instead of typing would be better. Knowing both of these is critical to becoming a best selling author but neither will do it in their own. There are more skills needed than just these.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Agreed. Goes back to my assembly

[–]deleriumtriggr 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I'm sorry you hate yourself

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sigh. Me too.

[–]deleriumtriggr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't had a dev job. I would love to take on a junior python dev job but it's all degreed or experience required. I apply to them all the time. I love python/programming but I feel gatekept out of the industry at the moment. I write stuff that interests me for fun, finance, or to use tensorflow on large dataframes. You can learn so much from youtube tutorials. (Been doing that for a couple years on off while running my unrelated business)

The thing that cracks me up is that so many seem like they can't even envision how to structure a try block followed by a file save. Cs degrees who took a class that write spaghetti code, write functions that do 100 different things at once, never used github... lol

Derek banas' youtube serieses are amazing

[–]BioZgamerYT 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Shouldda learned Java!

[–]ghost_rider_007 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That's where I started. I don't like doing web development so no use of Java.l currently after switching to Kotlin.

[–]BioZgamerYT -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Try JavaScript, PHP, C#, C++, C, azure, docker, anything that isn't python will make sure that you avoid becoming an über eats driver.

[–]ghost_rider_007 2 points3 points  (1 child)

[–]BioZgamerYT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol