View Single Post
Nathraiben's Avatar
Posts: 267 | Thanked: 408 times | Joined on May 2010 @ Austria
#12
Originally Posted by ArchiMark View Post
Good points, Naithraben....

As I've been teaching myself programming over the past few years off and on, I can fully relate to your points...

However, I don't think that ALL people trying out this approach, will try and then just stop if they hit a roadblock, at least a small percentage I would think might be inspired to seek out more knowledge. The rest will just drop out as you're suggesting...which is OK too...
True, but it's a shame that the percentage of "drop outs" is actually higher than without a code creator, for those who fall prey to human laziness wouldn't necessarily have made bad developers (especially since developers are lazy by definition ).

Then again, like you wrote, it helps with people creating simple apps for themselves, so manpower is not "wasted" on doing it for them. I guess that way it kind of compensates for the lower number of developers.

So, in my opinion, it's a bit harmful from a developer's point of view but actually a bit of an advantage for the community itself.