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Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by shakna »

enw wrote: post #10
bitwize wrote: post #6

I got hooked on the feeling of power and control. When you're five years old (the age I was when I started programming "seriously"), it's an age when people start expecting things of you, making demands of you, but you are in no position to do likewise to others. The computer is a machine, not a person, but it's more like a person than other machines are (which is part of why it's so mystifying). It can follow instru…

> When you're five years old (the age I was when I started programming "seriously") I know this is HN, but I have a hard time believing this. Somehow feels like nostalgic self-congratulatory boasting. Honestly curious, what does it mean for a 5-year-old to be programming seriously?

For myself, it was around that age that I stopped just writing games line by line from magazines, and started creating my own from scratch.

I also branched out from just making games, and started writing programs to solve things for me, for example, a budgeting program.

Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by menage »

enw wrote: post #10
bitwize wrote: post #6

I got hooked on the feeling of power and control. When you're five years old (the age I was when I started programming "seriously"), it's an age when people start expecting things of you, making demands of you, but you are in no position to do likewise to others. The computer is a machine, not a person, but it's more like a person than other machines are (which is part of why it's so mystifying). It can follow instru…

> When you're five years old (the age I was when I started programming "seriously") I know this is HN, but I have a hard time believing this. Somehow feels like nostalgic self-congratulatory boasting. Honestly curious, what does it mean for a 5-year-old to be programming seriously?

I think "seriousness" has to be interpreted in the context of the programmer. I discovered computer programming at the ago of seven, and I was about as serious about it as a seven year old can be.

Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by throwawayboise »

spideymans wrote: post #3

The title should be "Why I Love Coding", but the system appears to have modified the title after submission. It would be great if the mods could revert that.

I think there are some automatic removals of gratuitous words with the intention of making titles less clickbaity. Not sure I see the value in this case, or I could be entirely mistaken.

Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by graton »

I also love it :)

Just this weekend I was learning about RabbitMQ and setting it up on a free Oracle Cloud VM. Writing some Python code (using the Pika library) to be able to send and receive messages.

Also getting around to learning about how to use Flask (Python web framework) and then Gunicorn. All this so I could try to figure out how to have my own webhook receiver accessible on the Internet and then get those events to end up inside my local intranet.

And reading an article here today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100974) and realizing I could use Cloudflare's Tunnel (aka Argo) and be able to stop using the Oracle Cloud VM.

At the end of it all I was thinking, "this is cool!" :)

Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by yeswecatan »

I love coding on my own projects. When it comes to work, I get so incredibly anxious about not being able to deliver a good solution. I obsess over every detail fearing I'll make the wrong choice ("this _could_ be a foreign key but should it be?" "Redis or postgres for this very crucial counter data") that most joy is completely stripped away.

I admire and envy those who can hear unclear requirements and get excited about needing to solve a problem.

Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by [deleted] »

shakna wrote: post #11
enw wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When you're five years old (the age I was when I started programming "seriously") I know this is HN, but I have a hard time believing this. Somehow feels like nostalgic self-congratulatory boasting. Honestly curious, what does it mean for a 5-year-old to be programming seriously?

For myself, it was around that age that I stopped just writing games line by line from magazines, and started creating my own from scratch. I also branched out from just making games, and started writing programs to solve things for me, for example, a budgeting program.

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Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by Flex247A »

jack-bodine wrote: post #9

There really is a special kind of satisfaction when you see something you wrote actually work. I remember the first time I made a sprite move around the screen with arrow keys, I probably moved that guy around for several minutes just out of pride. I'm sure we all have similar memories.

I have a similar memory where I made a sprite jump by pressing the spacebar! I played with it for atleast ten minutes without getting bored!

Recently I made a small music player and till now I have played several songs on it just because the software is programmed by me!

Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by allenu »

I love coding too, basically for the same reasons. There’s something about creating things from scratch, making them better, and debugging issues that can’t be matched by other hobbies. You just have more control and speed in working on things versus physical things like working on an engine.

That said, I don’t like the business of coding. Doing coding for a living strips away a lot of the joy out of it, but this is why I have side projects and why I have learned to treat the business of coding as a job first and coding second.

Re: Why I Love Coding (2012)

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Post by [deleted] »

throwawayboise wrote: post #13
spideymans wrote: post #3

The title should be "Why I Love Coding", but the system appears to have modified the title after submission. It would be great if the mods could revert that.

I think there are some automatic removals of gratuitous words with the intention of making titles less clickbaity. Not sure I see the value in this case, or I could be entirely mistaken.

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