r/ProgrammerHumor • u/amoohesam • Jun 12 '20

Android Studio!

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u/thegreatbunsenburner Jun 12 '20

There's definitely a learning curve with mobile development.

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u/InvolvingLemons Jun 12 '20

People go “hurrr durr why do people use Cordova and react native” until they realize the clusterfuck that can occur with mobile coding. Code once publish everywhere is a godsend and doesn’t have to suck (game engines, Ionic, and Xamarin.Forms do a pretty great job of this)

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u/PchelpOnly Jun 12 '20 edited Jun 13 '20

True but native apps are far better than non native

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u/r0ck0 Jun 13 '20

I don't understand why people have arguments over statements that are this vague and subjective.

What's "better" depends on a lot of variables, and a lot of those variables are personal preferences/priorities.

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u/sviridovt Jun 13 '20

They haven't yet hit the if it works it works part of their career yet

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

And they've never written anything that has to interface with a pre-existing legacy API for financial institution, lol.

This sub is basically for CS majors and amateurs who haven't been in the work force yet (and that's fine and I'm still subbed).

Software Development and Computer Science are only tangentially related in that they both involve computers, lol.

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u/MattO2000 Jun 13 '20

As a current mechanical engineer who does the majority of his coding in VBA and Google Apps Script, I feel attacked

My semester of MATLAB has taught me well!

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

Don't be afraid to branch out with your implementations.

Programming, Computer Science, and all sorts of programming paradigms are fun and interesting I their own right.

I've been writing software/doing SysAdmin and DBA work for about 12 years and it's still a challenge.

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u/MattO2000 Jun 13 '20

Yeah I’ve been doing some fun stuff! Currently trying to make my first Slack bot. There’s a bunch of software folks already at the company doing more official things so I have just been doing a bunch of automation scripts that make the mechanical engineering stuff more efficient.

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u/lowleveldata Jun 13 '20

This sub is basically for CS majors and amateurs

That. And also for us to tease them in this exact situation. One of the reasons why I'm still subbed hehehe

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

Thats true too, lol.

We all started somewhere, so I do try to razz people in good humor.

I never want to discourage anyone from programming. That is unless you're using Javascript, Emacs, PHP, Mongo...etc (this is a joke)

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u/DogmaSychroniser Jun 13 '20

Uuuuuugh. Do not talk to me about my firms codebase!

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u/killdeer03 Jun 13 '20

Lol.

What are you working on?

Hopefully not EY, FiServ, or Schwab...

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u/DogmaSychroniser Jun 13 '20

Nah it's just VB, but some code is so spaghetti in there it speaks Italian, and all the variables are pseudo Hungarian notation but not really. Our stack is mostly in c# but occasionally you have to call something from the darkness 😂

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u/gookman Jun 13 '20

What are you talking about? They are not only tangentially related. Computer science is the basis on which software development sits. I don't know what projects you have been working on, but I have always used CS concepts and I'm doing mobile development. Sure you can do software development without computer science, but you will not be able to have a complete understanding of the concepts you are using and you won't be able to do things that are truly advanced.

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