If You Want To Learn How To Code, Don’t Try Learning How To Code

There are no benefits in trying to learn how to code

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I first got introduced to the world of programming in 2014 with C unless you consider working with HTML in which case that would be 2011 for me.

But I don’t consider the HTML stuff so I will start from 2014.

Learning C was a lot for me to take in. My first paper was a disaster and what gave me comfort and hope that I was going to be fine was the fact that I didn’t fail alone. We were about 7 of us and my crush had failed too.

I tried to learn the language but I couldn’t understand shit. I couldn’t figure out how mere mortals could manage computer memory with a language. I even didn’t appreciate the significance of not having memory leaks in my programs. Garbage values or null values meant the same thing to me. — It was crazy.

My lab professor must have figured out that I was not going to learn anything in C so she gave me a simple “project” that she thought I could pass without struggling too much.

It was a simple calculator. I was so bad that I could not even write a simple program that took inputs from a user and used them in the operations but when I somehow wrote that, it sparked something in me.