Are some people just not meant to program...

>6 figure salary at the start
What the actual fuck? You come straight from a BS or BA? Literally anything that requires 6 figs has real world experience before hand and if it doesn't, you graduated from an extremely good school or did some dumb over the top shit in college.

Expressing some serious doubt. Unless you live in Cali, Israel, or UAE.

If you're not a faggot and post some proof, then I'm jelly.

I went to a public school (Virginia Tech) and got myself an internship every year starting freshmen. This cumulated in me getting a job at one of the top 3 tech giants who's starting salary is six figures and has some of the best benefits in the industry. It's not uncommon. Here's the paystub from my first year of work. It's a lot more possible than most think, but it all depends on what you do. That being said the first internship I got was a 40k a year job in gov that paid half my tuition. These things exist, but you have to look and apply.

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>-Guy who's first job hired him at 6 figures.
>That being said the first internship I got was a 40k a year job

You're a faggot.

I'm am jealous though. Waiting for the results of an internship next week. I know what I want to get into, and I know it pays 6 figures, but don't have the $ to get the paper that says I'm hireable and know my shit, and actually get that knowledge too.

I see programming as being like reading and writing, in that in the future everyone will be able to do it, and it will be a skill that we just take for granted. Entry-level programming languages will be taught in elementary schools along with arithmetic and literacy. It's easier to learn if you start sooner, like in your teens or earlier, but it's not impossible to learn as an adult. You just have to be dedicated. I predict that coding skills will only become more essential and central to our economy as time goes on, so it's certainly worth the effort.

The best thing about this industry is despite what the media says, it is still very much a meritocracy. The high achievers achieve, regardless of pieces of paper. I went to school to learn and it paid massive dividends, but self taught guys can kick just as much ass. Keep learning, and remember spam that application. There are 1.5 million jobs needing tech expertise.

>Are some people just not meant to program?
Yes, I am one of these people too. Everything about it just flies over my head. I can't comprehend it.

>Entry-level programming languages will be taught in elementary schools along with arithmetic and literacy.
you're fucking dreaming, half of freshmen university students fail out of their babby tier programming class. No way they're going to put a bunch of double digit IQ negro and mexican children through that.

If there's companies making millions off people to teach programming to literal toddlers, manbabies like you can learn.

It's more dependent on passionand willing to learn rather than not being able to comprehend.

I respect the grind. Already preping for some certs too. If there's one thing I learned, being proactive in learning is the best thing you can do, and that kind of drive doesn't stop after you get your dream job.

basic programming is so easy, I can't even grasp how someone can't understand it. When I finished some random Java courses on YouTube with 0 previous knowledge I thought "Wait, that's it? Is this really all there is to it?"

I'm with you OP, working on the CS50 course now, and I'm at problem set 1 for the first week, where it wants me to make a program that can tell what the minimum amount of coins needed for change is, and another asking me to output a pyramid from Mario using hashtags and their input. It's daunting, and I've put a lot of time into these projects with no avail, but you gotta keep at it, even if it's hopeless. You will get eureka moments that prop you up.

is that an entry level course? sounds abnormally difficult for a beginner.

My shrink says I get frustrated fast if things don't go my way but I'm always looking into new problems and challenges to solve (which makes sense considering I use gentoo). Would programming work for me? Even webdev is fine, I'm tired of trying to find something I can do. I actually studied Law and Business administration before giving up on both since the courses would just bore me to hell.

Can you turn that frustration into motivation? What's the longest you've ever worked on a problem?

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In the Middle Ages, most adults in Europe couldn't read and had tremendous difficulty learning to do so. Like reading, coding is a skill that we're not naturally born with, but that doesn't make it inherently difficult.

People read shit every day. You think kids are going to write code every day?

They already do. Go to the Tech section in your local Barnes and Noble. You'll probably see Python for Kids, Arduino for Kids, and similar titles.

I have worked on problems that interest me for days. Like setting up a LAMP stack for the first time at home (the software I used was not written by me though; a web interface for rtorrent and an imageboard), or even installing Gentoo for the first time.
I get frustrated when it's something utterly uninteresting to me, which I know is naive considering most people have to at least occasionally do stuff they don't like in their jobs.

Yeah being a webdev makes it easy to find a job. That said tho, they're not necessarily good jobs and you will be currynigged to the bone. But if you need to pay the bills, it's better than being a hooker or a mime I guess.

Are some people just not meant to program?

>Are some people just not meant to program?
Not sure what the IQ threshold would be, but you have to be intelligent enough, at least be able to pass college algebra without much trouble. It's not genius level shit, it's mostly putting in the hours to learn it, but yes some people will just lack the intellectual capacity to program.

It is; I am having difficulty with it, but it's good to work out this stuff now, I hope. It's an online course provided by Harvard.

Well you're gonna work on interesting problems and you're gonna work on ones that piss you off. Patience is a virtue.

Just because there are books doesn't mean that kids are constantly picking them up, reading them, and completing all the exercises in them on a daily basis.

>Harvard
Oh I guess that explains it. The coin thing is actually really easy for me but I don't understand what the pyramid assignment is asking exactly.

This is like cooking. Anyone can cook but not everyone is a chef.
>Hope you saw ratattouille.

It is the same with programming. Anyone can program, but not everyone is a great, not even a good, programmer.

Given the fact that you are just starting and you are coming from another area. I would suggest you to keep going if:
>You are not older than 26. Mainly because of your ease to learn and because employeers will still want to hire you.
>You enjoy, or at least didn't find boring to create your first programs.
>You are interested in how EVERYTHING works, not just the program, but a computer and basically everything related. (doesn't mean you have to know it, you just find it interesting).
>You have an open mind in general. You notice there are different solutions for the same problem (and I'm not talking about programming, I mean it as how you approach life).
>Can distinguish advantages and disadvantages of the solutions even if there's some that seem completely out of your mind or by logic one solution seems the best.

If you check at least 3/5, you are better than pajeet.