How learning how to code can help you think critically
Have you ever though about learning how to code? If so, I suggest you start today. Learning how to code will help you in areas in life that you never imagined. The constant time you spend in solving problems and putting things together to form something will teach you great lessons.
Lessons like understanding that being patient is the key to it all (but you already knew this). If you’re the type of person who is inpatient and refuse to think and simply just try to solve problems, then coding ins’t for you.
In matter in fact, if you’re reading this article then you already are thinking better by choosing to get information about how something like coding can help a person think better and critically.
Why does it help ?
Development is a constant timeline of problem solving and critical thinking. For any given task, one needs to quickly analyze and evaluate what the best method is for implementation. This can include markup-language, semantic structure, technique, browser support, efficiency, functionality and a number of other things.
The end goal is to find the most efficient way to achieve something, while maintaining effectiveness and meeting core considerations.
You’ll notice that a lot of the core skills in learning to code use analytical and evaluative skills as well as knowledge. However, when reading web code, your brain learns to interpret the information and translate it into either (depending on how you think) visual or conceptual entities.
This really helps your linguistic analytics, as you’re continually deciphering information quickly.
For me, learning to code and web development in general, really developed my critical thinking skills, helping me think about a range of issues (including design) in a much more logical and systematic nature.
It’s something I highly recommend. If you’re a designer and you haven’t yet made the leap over, this is just one of valuable benefits to consider, but there are many others, including getting more work.
In today’s world, critical thinking is predominately used as an ambiguous term to describe one’s ability to analyse a given issue in a ‘critical’ manner. In more definitive terms however, it can be thought of as the mental process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer, solution or logical conclusion. It’s a combination of problem solving and analytics.
Isn’t that what we all should aim for? Solve problems around us?
What critical thinking can be useful for :
- Understanding logical connotations between ideas.
- Identifying, constructing and evaluating arguments.
- Detecting inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning.
- Solving problems systematically.
- Identifying the relevance and importance of ideas.
- Reflecting on the justification of one’s own beliefs and values.
Just as design solves communication problems, web development solves similar issues, but in a much more definitive and less subjective manner. One of the greatest things coding will teach you is the ability to weigh-up the benefits and disadvantages of things quickly. Just like a designer has a number of tools at their disposal for a given task, a developer has similar choices.
So if you want to improve your critically thinking and be good at handling life it self I suggest you learn code today. You will thank yourself for it later in in life.
Not to mention you will have the power to build an app or start a start-up company. Do not underestimate the power of coding, you too can do great things and change the world. Just imagine what you can do if you learn coding and let it take over you…
Start coding today!
