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How to Make Programming More Exciting and More Fun

Gaël Thomas on January 29, 2020

Although the majority of developers know why programming is exciting, you might wonder for ways to make it funnier. I've recently asked on the Ins...
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I've said it before, coding is pretty much magic, you write some spells and if they are right, something happen, sometimes around the world, sometimes you make some robot move or some distant gizmo to tell you stuff about where it is; you can be a wizard and control your environment with your code, a necromancer rising hundreds of un-living robots, a warlock invoking some ML to solve mysteries mere humans don't understand, or.. you know... sell some spells to make some money :]

and besides, the technical prowess of modern computers, the fact that the transistor gates nowadays are in nm, that we are about to hit quantum effects in the transistors when a few decades ago a tube was 10cm long, that this post was written in some small country in the other side of the planet and almost instantly all of you can read it (maybe you don't want, but you can!), and to make all those wonders you just need a 100USD device (hopefully a larger one), you can get a Raspberry Pi for almost nothing, Arduinos for even less and the controllers for even less!. And no, I won't mention smartphones, I hate them, those are evil. But the rest, is amazing. Satellites!, cmon, we have satellites!, GPS needs to take into account relativistic effects!, awesome, absolutely awesome.

We are living in the age of the nerd, and is awesome.

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Gaël Thomas

Well, if that's not a message of love for IT, I don't know what to say!
We live in the best of all times to create new things and participate in our future.

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Binh Huynh • Edited

At the moment, i feel boring about my programming skill. I don't have my first project, but i always like learn new technology and programming language. After i read your post, i felt better yesterday. Thank you for your post. Good luck to you :>.

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Gaël Thomas

Doing small projects is the key to getting better and avoiding the dull period.
Good luck with your learning. You will find success in it! 😀

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Madza

People get used to everything. We are bored of coding using editors with fancy text formatting and endless sea of functional features. Imagine what we would do, if we had to code in built-in Notepad. xdd

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Gaël Thomas

That would be complicated! 😝 Btw, Notepad++ is a good software to code in a complex framework such as Symfony!! 😂

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Madza

I actually started with Notepad++ :)
Lol, imagine to develop like some MERN app using just Notepad xdd

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Gaël Thomas

How to die in 4 steps 😂

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Gaël Thomas

😂😂

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Michel Renaud

We just got a brand new web app at work and it only works in IE. I died a little.

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Andrea Bizzotto

I’m becoming a fan! Really like your articles and style.

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Gaël Thomas

Thank you, Andrea! It means a lot to me because I spend a lot of time on this project! I'm so glad you like it! 🙏☺️

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Simhadri

Great Info..

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Gaël Thomas

Thank you! 🙏

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Ajit Shaw

Really nice way to put it all up :)

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Gaël Thomas

Thank you! 😊