Real Life Lessons in Programming

Let me take a break from finishing the second tutorial post. 

Being a programmer is not just something you acquire for the sake of being employed. It is a PASSION (well, this is how I love my job). In everything that we do, we must give our 101%, put our mind, body and soul for a satisfactory output that will benefit not only our users but us as programmers. Programming isn't as techy as it sounds, it also has a heart. Real life lessons are also applicable in this area:

1. "To understand is to perceive patterns" -- Isaiah Berlin. Coding requires critical thinking. Critical-mindedness helps you to see the pattern that lies behind the overall behaviour of a system. Acquiring this pattern will make our coding smooth and modular in approach.

2. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" -- Leonardo da Vinci. Wow, amazing! Even master Leonardo's words of wisdom apply to today's technologies. It's true, the simpler your code will be, the better. Isn't it cool that with just a simple solution, you are able to resolve a whole system's trouble?

3. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" -- Isaac Newton. I personally been just hearing this saying on businesses (since they talk about business giants). In programming, if you feel like you are in a situation of creating a very complex algorithm, chances are that you are in a wrong path. And chances are that somebody has already done it and shared it in the community. Check Google, he is your friend. Do not waste time, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication anyway.

4. "Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow" -- Peter McWilliams. Stop procrastinating! Stop wasting time waiting for the right timing. The right time to start doing what you love is NOW. So you love programming? So you want to create a system? Why tonight? Why later? Create the ember now. 

5. "Logic will get you from A-Z, Imagination will get you everywhere" -- Albert Einstein. Very well said Sir Einstein. It is accepted that developers are left-brained person (well, not literally of course). I mean, developers tend to be more analytic and logical. And that lies in our shortcoming. We must imagine more to  move futher. We have to imagine more to touch real-life situations where our end-users will be testing our products. We have to imagine how our project will work so that we could have a better view on how we are going to design its backend.

Programming is something very loveable. Who says programmers have no life? We are full of life, we sustain life. Be proud. Happy coding!