What trivial real-life example do you use to explain programming to total non-programmers?
- by anon
Programmers seem to live in a world of their own (as this site indicates), with their own vibrant culture - and their own premises and vocabulary. Once we've been in the field for a bit, we take a lot of things for granted. But I'm often faced with the question "What do you do?" Or "What is programming?"
I generally try to answer this with a…