Coding and Life: A Personal Perspective

In the current era or generation, technology is growing, and the use of computers, laptops, building apps, and building websites — making the whole world digital — has become the norm. It’s like no one can live without technology, and you might even be called dumb if you don’t know some basics of technology.  

Now, for all this technology to work and sustain, people learn, study, and make a profession in CODE/CODING.  

Given where the world is headed, many people have different opinions on whether coding is good or bad, beneficial or not, and so on. In this blog, I’m expressing my perspective on coding, given that I almost swim in code 😂. Being a CS grad, yes, we have to — or rather, I chose to — dive and swim in this ocean called coding and making applications and all the tech. I hope you can relate if you are in a similar field as mine; otherwise, it’s just a nice story.  

So yeah, enough with the introductions.  

Let me get to the point.  

As for me, I was introduced to coding through HTML — I guess everyone started with the same thing. When we were kids, seeing that you type something on Notepad and save it as .htm, and then open it in a browser to see something — it was all like magic! The idea that you could create something from text brought the spark in me to do more crazy stuff, and that’s how I started going deep into learning computers and coding. That’s also how I did my PU and B.Tech in CSE.  

Then during B.Tech, with a deeper understanding of data structures, algorithms, and the basics of coding as a whole, I started seeing things differently.  

I’d see a serial light and think, ah yeah, they used looping ,(0,1s) in this.  

I’d see BMTC bus lights and think, yeah, a simple print statement with a set of if-else conditions for the LEDs.  

The moment I realized that my thinking had truly changed was when I had to organize my clothes in a new cupboard.  

Usually, we just fold and keep the clothes in stacks — maybe shirts in one row and pants in another — the most basic sorting. But when I had to rearrange, my brain went, “let’s sort it!” The basic sorting wasn’t enough. And well, a girl obviously has so many clothes 😅, yet we still say we don’t have any because we need to dress according to the occasion and get bored of things easily — that’s the real reason 😂.  

Back then, I was a college student, and my college had a strict formal dress code. It wasn’t fair to sit and think every morning about what to wear from the whole pile — total time waste. Through my coding practice, I thought, “let’s sort it in a custom way — the way we want, just like we code.” Coding helps us customize everything according to our needs, and I feel that’s one of the coolest things. No wonder people go behind it ✨.  

How did I sort my clothes?  

One shelf for daily wear,  

One for formals,  

One for daily wear pants,  

One for formal pants,  

One for grand dresses,  

One for semi-grand or family gathering outfits,  

And of course, one shelf for my makeup 😜.  

By doing this tedious sorting once, I no longer needed to worry every day about what to wear or whether something counted as formal. That’s one less daily decision — reducing the workload for my brain.  

That realization hit me hard — this ideology came to me because I practice coding. That’s when I thought, damn, coding really does change the way you think.  

I also found that instead of stacking clothes, I could arrange them differently for easier access, ensuring even the clothes at the bottom could be reused. Let’s be real — we always pick whatever’s on top 😅. So experimenting with different arrangements helped ensure my hands and eyes had equal access to everything.  

Another example — when I had to pack my suitcase, I noticed folding pants took too much space. So, making them flat and stuffing the tops between them before closing saved space (thanks to Pinterest). Rolling clothes instead of folding them traditionally saved even more space — and looked pretty cool and aesthetic too.  

All these cool aspects are like the pros of coding that I’ve experienced.  

The cons would be errors and debugging — sometimes they just don’t make sense 🤧.  

But the dopamine rush, the joy in solving those errors, and making things work — that’s just amazing. That feeling could be why I still continue to live with coding ✨.  

This is my perspective on coding. It’s awesome how you can customize everything through coding, but as we delve deeper, it sometimes just stops making sense 😅.  

Key takeaways:  

- Practicing coding helps improve life.  

- It reduces our workload.  

- It improves our thinking skills and creativity.  

What’s your perspective on coding?  

Let me know in the comments ✨  

See you soon in another blog.