Why I Took an Interest in Coding

I never really coded before attending university. I mostly just saw it as something that only certain people could do or could learn. I envied those who code, because I thought it was beyond my reach. When I began attending university, I acquired a job as an astrophysics research assistant. This job required that I code in Python. I finally had a means to teach myself how to code. During my job, I would have to search online to find ways to do x or y. I remember spending my first day trying to learn how to add two variables together.

Before long, I learned how to build arrays of different values. I would use these arrays to add values together systematically. I would be able to find the three dimensional velocity and three dimensional radius of stellar objects. I learned how to break down complicated formulae and write them as code so that Python can find the value at each specific computation throughout the array. Just watching how amazing Python can be was exhilarating. That is why I have chosen to focus on learning to program. I write these blogs not only for you, but for myself as well. I think it will be quite interesting to look back at my blogs and see what challenges I faced, what my thoughts were at the time, and how I have progressed. Even the gap between May and present, August 5th 2018, is quite remarkable. I look forward to seeing how I progress over the coming few months.

Thank you for reading!