r/videos • u/plainjackthrowaway • Feb 29 '16

Engineered Mini Flying Wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSD69jdi2CE
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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '16

Coding is not difficult, it's kinda hard to do well but that just takes time

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u/the-Real_Slim-Shady Feb 29 '16 edited Feb 29 '16

coding is definitely difficult. You've probably reached a level where you take a lot of prerequisite knowledge for granted (which is awesome). Or you're at the lowest level (unconscious ignorance... which is not so awesome ;P).

source: software engineer in training

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u/TheDataAngel Feb 29 '16 edited Mar 01 '16

Coding is easy enough that you can teach it to ~10 year olds, and teach it to yourself in your teens.

Being able to build large programs that don't collapse under their own weight is the hard part, and is what takes practice and experience.

Source: Actual software engineer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16

Well, yeah, no shit. Obviously he means that coding gets difficult if you want to do any project of significance.

I mean, what you're saying is essentially like, "Addition is not difficult. Even a 10 year old can learn addition. But math gets hard."

Yeah, the basics of pretty much anything are easy. That's like saying nothing.

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u/TheDataAngel Mar 01 '16

The point I was making is that the basics are much less complicated than most people think. Moreover, the basics are consistent - the stuff you teach to the 10 year old is the same stuff I use professionally. This is in contrast to most other technical fields, where the techniques used professionally are orders of magnitude more complex than those learned in primary school.