DO YOU CODE?

Until recently I didn’t know what coding was and generally categorized it under the ambiguous heading of Computer Programming without giving any further thought.

Since I’m not a Software Programmer or anything related to it I don’t have an average coder’s background, with the programming and coding urge starting fairly late. I did study C Programming at school and then later on at university but without really appreciating its possibilities.

However recently I took a course in computers dealing with HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript, SQL and of course C.

I’ve since fallen in love with programming. I’m not very much interested in Web Designing and/or its development. The way I see it anyone with a little HTML and CSS know-how can do it.

But programming and coding of software etc is something else.It’s like you creating something new. You can literally do anything with it. There is no limit to it.

I am-compared to most programmers- at a fairly beginner level. But a few weeks ago I undertook a challenge.

On the face of it, it didn’t seem that difficult. Basically it was a big blank <div> with a smaller <div> inside. The smaller <div> had a text I it as well as a ‘New Quote’ button and few options for sharing. When you pressed the ‘New Quote’ button the quote changed as well as the text-color of the quote and the background-color of the first div.

For weeks I couldn’t figure out how the bloody thing worked. I had used an array for the quotes and then included it in a function, which I had called on the ‘New Quote’ button.

The thing was that initially it didn’t show any of the quotes at all when I pressed the buttons. But then, after sufficient modifications. I got it to display a quote at the click of the button.

My problem was that the function only worked once with the button click but after the click the button would disappear to make way for the quote. Then I would refresh the page to make the button appear again.

But oh my jubilation last night when I figured out the problem!

Of course there is still sufficient work to be done, like the color problem. But last night, for the first time I felt like a real coder.

So my question remains, do you code?