Programming is hard. That’s precisely why you should learn it.
By Administrator | 10 May 2017
It was far past midnight. My wife and kids had long gone to bed. But sleep was not an option for me. I had to figure it out. So I tweaked the code again, for the googolth time, and hit run.
Hmm, looks promising.
If I click here, the program should call the “compute next move” function. Yes. And if I click here, that function should call itself. Good. Now, if I click here, I should get…not that.
Argh.
More tweaks. More errors. More hours tick by.
Learning programming is hard, I thought. My next thought?
Yes, and that’s why I like it.
How programming became my hobby
I began to learn how to code using JavaScript four months ago, starting with freeCodeCamp’s front-end curriculum. For me, programming became a hobby.
Over the past few years, I had become disappointed with my creation-to-consumption ratio. Too much of my free time was spent consuming. Netflix, podcasts, Twitter, magazines, televised sports, Facebook, blogs, Medium, newspapers, novels — the list goes on.
There is nothing wrong with any of these activities, but they are all pure input. Even reading a great book is an act of consumption. Read more
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