For quite a while now I read all these disheartening articles about newcomers to programming field feeling completely incompetent for being unable to acquire professional experience.<p>If it helps to make things a bit more comforting for them, I feel the same and I am a person with some form of experience.<p>How can anyone acquire professional experience nowadays, even if it means to start from near zero?<p>Any suggestions or thoughts on this topic?
RPA - robotic process automation - basically automating manual computer processes. There's a big need for it, and every company has unique procedures.<p>It's basically scripting for legacy software, not glamorous or exciting.<p>In a similar vein there's a shipload of excel VBA (VBA hasn't been supported for years) out there that needs updating. MS is pushing office scripts but there's been very little uptake so far.<p>First step is to get a job, any job. Then learn their processes.