Art of Computer programming.

Source: Dev.to

Introduction

If you’ve clicked on this post you might be expecting a deep dive into why computer science or programming is a science. Hold your horses—this is more about my personal approach to coding as a rookie, drawing on my background in artistic fields rather than technical or STEM disciplines.

My Journey

The same interest drove me to follow the application process for the piscine, a one‑month selection program. I credit my growth to that month because, up until then, the only thing I knew about coding was VS Code. During those four weeks I learned that programming is more than just “Hello, World.”

Honestly, programming is not as easy as some people would like to tell you. In that first month of real programming I realized I had not done anything remotely as challenging as coding before. I had to shift the way I approached it, and I decided to relate this skill to fields I was already familiar with. That was the only way I could understand the spectacle of writing code in an IDE and seeing it produce output.

Programming as Art

I began to view great coders as the Picassos of their field, using the IDE as their canvas and the syntax as their paint. Like any art form, programming has its own technicalities, with different languages and their various “accents” (syntax). My first language was Go (Golang), which forced me to revisit STEM subjects and borrow ideas from them.

Challenges and Reflections

I’m still figuring out many aspects of coding. It can be hard, but as the saying goes, “Do hard things.”