To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things.
Aside from being a career, I’m curious what got you into coding ?
I studied chemical engineering in university, but I realized it wasn’t what I hoped.
What I hoped: sitting at a desk, drawing schematics, crunching numbers, designing chemical plants, coming up with smart ideas, etc.
What it actually was: walking around a chemical plant or factory and managing plant operators (they knew way more than I did).
It turns out programming is exactly what I hoped from chemical engineering. I love solving problems from the comfort of a desk.
Math was always my favorite subject in school, and it seems programming is a type of applied maths.