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My biggest problem is figuring out what I want to do with any coding skills. I have none, by the way, and I don't even know where to start.
Some of the usual responses when I state this:
"Automate your work" - I work in Salesforce. Have you seen Salesforce? I'm not a multi faceted systems administrator constantly updating DNS records or working in Active Directory.
"Write a cool app" - What cool app? What is "cool"?
"Open dev tools and look around" - Why? Specifically, why?
Also, learning programming is BORING. Most of the courses I've tried are so so stale and they aaallll end up explaining concepts in the same way.
"This is a fleeble and it holds the sping, the sping tells the plus plus that it must do what the herbug says".
k.
Then it's not for you. No shame in that. I don't understand the notion that everyone is supposed to be a coder now.
If anything, the low-level coding part is something AI models may well make obsolete relatively soon. Unlike any craftsmanship - why not learn masonry or carpentry instead?
I'm not giving up a 20+ year career in IT just because I haven't yet found a way to learn how to code.
There's more than one way to teach a subject and it would be nice to have even a basic understanding of the mess I am supposed to be supporting,
Why do you want to learn how to code?
Is it purely to get a better understanding of how salesforce works "under the hood"?
(I'm looking for context because I don't know anything about salesforce but I do know how to code)
Oh god no, not Salesforce. No no no.
All of our other products.
Gotcha, maybe you don't necessarily have to be a coder to understand those products better.
Simply being curious and having conversations with devs will probably get you far.