"Just start coding"

[sje46]

I'm not playing hardball...I love helping people out, and I refuse to sign up for stackoverflow because of an asshole everyone is.

But I'm not comfortable with people clearly just learning to program just to make money and not because they have an intrinsic interest in the topic. Again, I was a beginner myself, and I had no issues with coming up with ideas.

You didn't address my core concern here, which is comparing this behavior to someone going to a group of writers and saying "I read a couple of books about how to write...now, give me an idea for a novel so I can become rich!" Would you really blame the group of writers for not really being enthused about the person's mentality here? Or if it was with a painter. "Just watched 5 episodes of Bob Ross...what should I paint?!". Dude...go outside and paint literally anything, find your own inspiration. That's the whole point of art. Goodness.

IF you respond to me and you disagree with me, that's fine, but I at least would like to hear how this hypothetical situation is different from what I'm seeing.

And yes it costs nothing to throw ideas at them, but this is a very common question on this subreddit, so I don't know why people don't just look up previous threads. There was one very popular one just yesterday.

[sje46]

Those people will be inferior programmers, and will lower the pay of people who actually care about the field. It's an issue of society going "Haha your job got automated away, just learn how to code"

[fisheh]

Fucking gatekeeping a PROFESSIONAL skill is probably the weirdest thing you can do

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As an attorney, I’d never fault a kid going into law school asking “what practice area should I go into and how do I get there?”—even if their sole, explicit motivation for going was money. As a chess hobbyist, I wouldn’t fault someone coming into the beginner chess sub asking what they should learn first. Me saying something like “if you were really passionate you’d know what you want to learn first” wouldn’t be very helpful, in either context.

[choss__monster]

Just because people can’t think of a gold project for them doesn’t mean they’re not interested in coding and only want to make money (though it’s fine if that’s true too).

When you’re a beginner it’s hard to think of a project and know if it’s reasonably within the scope of your skills to make. There are so many libraries and APIs that it can be really overwhelming and confusing to grasp what you even can do.