Firstly, because it’s all about DOING. Never in my life I have a chance to do so much like right now in coding. To have something, I need to be thinking, writing, testing and checking. That’s when my brain, my hands and my heart all are working. During school years, I already knew that I really hate the idea of sitting there listening to teachers, I just enjoy doing assignments, solving problems and doing something anyway. Even formula, I cannot just learn them by heart, I would go to take some examples to understand how the formula was constructed and make ones for myself. Like!
Secondly, because it’s CHALLENGING to me. I am the one who always crave for challenges, the more challenging something is, the more exciting it is for me and the more chance that if I put all of my effort into it, I’ll get it. Anything challenging is worth a try to me. Coding is not different. From developing algorithm to building applications to debugging, none of these is easy even with intensive experience in dealing with them. Every problem is so unique and novel to solve. So it’s exciting at first and rewarding eventually. Love it!
Thirdly, because it’s MEANINGFUL. Coming into tech from a view of an audience, I started using tech products for a long while ago and have used them even more now, something such as making a call to my family far away, it would be impossible without technology. I used to think that technology can be harmful, for example, I do not like seeing people paying too much attention into their phone without talking face to face to each other, but technology itself is not bad and it’s actually always developed for good purposes, it’s just that we need to know when to use and when to not. Technology to me is always a way to advance our life.
Fourthly, because it’s like a BLANK SPACE for artists to create things. I never like a notebook with lines given, I enjoy more a blank empty canvas in which I can draw and note however I want. That’s to me is the ultimate freedom. So does coding. Every time I open a visual studio, I always have the feeling of taking up the paintbrush and starting painting. It empowers me to become an artist at that moment and it’s up to me to create. More powerful to see what comes out from my work. That’s why I am excited to see the bugs even more than the nice things lay down, because to me bugs are reactions, just like signs of being alive. With creativity and hard work, something amazing might happen.
Those resonate my personal values and this only is enough for me to keep coding.
