Coding as my mission

Tell me, how did you get into coding?

Let’s leave out the boring stuff, of what tech stack did you learn first and when what, cuz you know, php versus js is just like tabs vs. spaces is just like pizza with pineapple or not, after all ☺️

I want to know: What was that spark(s) ✨that hit you which finally got you there?

I’ll go ahead.

My first one was:

At the beginning of the nineties, an IBM computer which I found amazing as a kid:

The humming sound of it, the text on it that looked as that of a typewriter, but you could insert and overwrite it, save it for later… Just wonderful! 💫

My second one was:

When I found out how to write command line prompts for doing math and write nice texts in LaTeX. I taught myself some simple HTML.

My third one was:

In the heat of summer of 2018, while I was sitting at my desktop doing some tedious task in Microsoft Word, it got me thinking how far I could get when I was able to write a software on my own!

But I had to wait for a chance to learn it.

In 2020, just before COVID arrived, I finally got a place in a C++ course in Munich of two parts: basics and object-oriented programming with C++. Yay!

Also, this was a good chance to get to Munich and see some people IRL, shortly before the lockdown, catching a spark to save it for those rainy days to follow. Yet another yay!

What does coding mean to me?

• A way of both creativity and logical thinking. 😇

• A way of helping people with their real-life problems just by adding some letters and brackets… 🧘‍♀️

• It made me think differently when I look at any apparatus that doesn’t work the way it should. Most of times, I get a sense of what may be the case of it 🤓

And you? Tell me in the comments! 👇