Andrew

“I’ve learned, over the years, that it’s impossible to explain the beauty of coding to someone who is not, themselves, a coder. Looking at the source of a website or a game or a piece of software is a lot like turning over an elaborate piece of embroidery and seeing the complicated tangle of the threads beneath: Only a certain kind of mind is interested in the complex logic of that mess, rather than the tidy end result. The cause, rather than the effect. Learning to code HTML that week made me understand something vital about myself: I may have spent most of my life thus far observing and consuming and regurgitating (my father’s thoughts, mostly), but what truly brought me joy was making something happen. Learning the secret language that allowed me to speak to the computer, and then using it to create something from nothing. All I had to do was string together a cryptic arrangement of letters and symbols, and there my private world would be on the screen, my vision magically made manifest. For the first time in my life, I felt like a god.”
― Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise