Now, you may say that this has nothing to do with my career path. FALSE. Neuroscientists use C++ to design programs very frequently, apparently, and knowing how to program is a huge asset in job/grad school applications, according to the people I asked. Moreover, what I'm planning on doing with this programming knowledge of programming will definitely help me in my future endeavors. I can't tell you what those plans are, because I'm hoping to keep them under wraps [along with my secret organization].
In any case, computer coding is really quite a fascinating thing. Not only is it openly accessible and all the necessary materials open source/built into browsers, you can think about programming languages the same way you'd think about any other language, with its own morphology and syntax. You can also think about it like molecular biology, exporting machine code that's virtually meaningless into a full virtual event. In a way, it's the magic of our world, the computer being another reality in which writing code is changing that dimension's framework, controlling what's extant, and inventing forms that have never existed.
Computers are becoming as much a part of our lifestyle as our own biological functions. For the same reason I love the life sciences, I've always been intrigued by programming. Only now, I finally realized that there's nothing stopping me from learning the languages and catching up with this incredibly vibrant world of invention and expressive logic.
That's not to say it isn't a lot to take in. Like, for real, there is a hell of a lot to learn. But it's totally worth it in my book.I'll be spending many hours a day for many days futilely trying to catch up to my programming buddies.
And I WILL
IT.I just hope I can get done a lot of learning done before school starts up, because I assuredly will be busy as hell for at least the latter half of the semester.
A couple side notes: music lessons make people more intelligent and I'm eating lunch with my grandma tomorrow.
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