Why I love to code

When I’m at work, I often find myself thinking — I get to work with this, I get to have this much fun and I even get paid for it!

But what’s so fun about it? It partly lies in being part of a team that works in the same direction, that sticks together and supports each other, but it also lies in the small things and everything in between. Working as a programmer means communicating with a computer, which means that you have to write exactly what you mean. When communicating with people, it is not quite as important, we can notice a typo but shrug our shoulders — we still understand what the writer wants to say. So you have to be clear and precise, it requires you to keep your concentration and be focused on details.

At the same time as you have to have this detail-oriented view, you alternate with having an overall view — how should we lay out the code, where should we divide it into different components and what type of structure should we use. And while we’re thinking about structure on a micro and macro level, we’re telling the computer to do the most amazing things both visually and functionally!

But of course, I could also answer that it’s fun to make things happen on a web page, that it’s great with the constant development that being a programmer entails or that it involves creative thinking to find solutions to problems. There are many reasons to love coding!