I've been thinking a lot lately about the parallels to learning a spoken language and learning a programming language.
How you can't first learn to speak in eloquent sentences until you learn basic sentences and words.
It definitely feels so relatable to code, you can't learn how to design and implement the most well architected solutions, without first understanding how to do things end to end.
There are so many parallels, beyond even what I wrote in this article. Formal languages and automata was one of my favorite classes in college. It's all alphabets, strings and grammars.
As a novelist and a coder, I concur on all counts. 💝
Aw thank you, that means a lot!!
I've been thinking a lot lately about the parallels to learning a spoken language and learning a programming language.
How you can't first learn to speak in eloquent sentences until you learn basic sentences and words.
It definitely feels so relatable to code, you can't learn how to design and implement the most well architected solutions, without first understanding how to do things end to end.
Great read, thanks for sharing 🥰
There are so many parallels, beyond even what I wrote in this article. Formal languages and automata was one of my favorite classes in college. It's all alphabets, strings and grammars.
Thank you for the love! ❤️
My first drafts usually get the point across but are very wordy, all over the place, and have a few misspelled words.
Like you said, it’s like coding.
Reminds me a lot of the first time I get a challenging piece of code working. I go back and clean it up once it’s working.
Awesome analogy, Irina 👏🏼
For sure, my first drafts don't compile either 😅😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great read! Love the quotes added two new books to my reading list. Writing is a lot like coding, even the research part is pretty similar.