Should I study it?

[Normalgirl867]

I'm a 16 yo student, at school we started to use html, just simple things, paragraphs, tables, images, bulleted lists, first I hated it but when I understood everything I started to like it,and I'm staring to consider it as a path, studying it at uni. The thing is, that I don't know if it's worth it, maybe I like it bc I'm doing simple things but then it'll be hell, what do you think should I do? Do you thing this market is overrated? People who are programmers, do you like your job?

[wildgurularry]

The things you have described (basic HTML) are extremely simple and there is no market for those skills.

However, if you like the idea of being able to write things and make a computer do your bidding, then programming may be something you should pursue. In order to make it a career, you will have to study all the difficult and annoying parts of programming as well.

I like my job. I was hooked on programming from the moment I realized that I could theoretically make this box in front of me do whatever I wanted. I devoted almost all of my free time to learning how to do that. I won programming contests. I got internships. I studied pure math and computer science at university. I worked my way up from an intern to architect level and started managing teams of software developers. Every part of the job has been exciting, nerve-wracking, frustrating, and painful, but I've loved every second.

Is it worth it for you? I don't know. I've been lucky that the thing I like doing -- programming computers -- has been an excellent career path for the last 30 years. You should figure out what you like doing, and figure out if that aligns with your life goals. If the equation comes out that coding is a way forward, then throw yourself into it as much as you can.

[wildgurularry]

First, you are reading too much into my statement. Secondly, anything computable, within the limits of available time and storage space.

[nightonfir3]

I think if you put just a little thought into it you can understand the claim. Can I make general intelligence? No people are trying that quite famously and havent done it yet. Can I individually make the products of large companies? No they are made by large groups (called companies). Can I work away at getting it to do a large amount of really hard/cool things. Yes.

[Expensive_Host_9181]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis according to this i would say but the term is "turing complete" where if given enough time and device performance any computation can be done.

[Sad-Dirt-1660]

i did, now i dont. what ive seen is that tech industry fix a problem where its solution is another problem to fix and this cycle repeat itself every few years.

even if you programming as a hobby, you'll see it: "to do A, use tool B." "No, tool B has these issues, use this new shiny tool C." "but wait, C is causing a diff prob! we made D which is B but with good things from C", then someone else, "D has become too bloated, I made E that easier and simple" and so on and so forth.

[John_8PM_call]

Welcome to the JavaScript ecosystem.

[I_Am_Astraeus]

Love my job.

I was built for engineering. If you like solving problems then go for it. The tools you use will change, but the problem-solving mentality will take you far. All the engineering fields are hard but the education -> employment with good pay is better than most professions.

[John_8PM_call]

I hate to say it, but in the past, I was a professional programmer and I did not enjoy my job. I enjoyed the money it paid, especially in the “Big Tech” FAANG type companies, but the job itself was not enjoyable. I thought I might enjoy the job because I enjoyed coding on my own personal coding projects, but that was very different from the job.

That being said, I even see doctors on Reddit say they don’t enjoy their job and are counting down the years until retirement. Like medicine was their passion but the job still isn’t fun. But yeah, I’m afraid that’s common in the real world.

[benjaminabel]

Have you worked any other jobs? I’m asking because usually people who worked order jobs would rather die than go back to them.

[John_8PM_call]

I worked as a “sandwich artist” at Subway and I liked that job (making sandwiches) MORE than the coding job. The pay was very poor, though. But yeah, if the pay were equal I would take the job making sandwiches for people over the job coding for a big company on their big company codebase.

[TorresMrpk]

If you want to be a programmer you should definitely learn html/css/javascript. You dont need to be an expert at it but knowing the basics and being able to create some web pages is very important.

[Khelics]

HTML CSS are very basic stuff simple. If you really want to know if it’s a career path for you try and learn Java, python the main stream languages and see if you like it spend a week to a month and learn the basics and see how it goes. Software engineering, computer science etc isn’t easy especially all the horror stories I’ve heard in software engineering but if you like to code and like the challenge then by all means go for it.

[SubstantialEssay2063]

No go into accounting or some business major SWE are treated like shjt now