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Discussion on: When Do You Become A Developer?

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Niko Dannemiller

I'm only working on my bachelor's degree right now I over heard a group of classmates talking about how they were computer scientist while we're fumbling around with linked lists. Wish I had their confidence but I think my tipping point will be the first time I get paid for some code I've written

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K

I think the problem is where to draw the line.

I know a bunch of people who wrote software more complex than I ever did, but they talk to me like I'm a "real" developer and they are just hacks, a bunch of scientist and mathematicians who just fumbled around with C.

My girlfriend is in marketing and writes code for automatic content generation and she wouldn't consider herself a developer.

All these people get paid for the code they wrote.

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Steph Smith

Yes, exactly! I think there really isn't any fine line.