Hackaddiction

This past Saturday afternoon, I wrote my first useful command line program from scratch. It was really fun. Every time I got a new piece of code working the way I envisioned it would, I felt like superwoman. The program allows you to type in “events” in your command line then it prints out all the cool music events happening that night in Brooklyn and New York and their venues using a scrape from Resident Advisor.

And today, I was thinking about that program that I only stopped working on because I had to meet up with some friends and how I could keep making it better and I got excited about figuring out how I would do that. And I knew I had reading and homework I was supposed to do for school. And then it dawned on me - the blessing and curse of computer programming.

Your program can never stop getting more amazing.

Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself by saying that. I mean I know for sure that my programs are far from amazing as a programming newb.

But even after I got my program working the way that I wanted when I first set out to work on the project, I started thinking of ways to improve it. And maybe that I’d finish those improvements today. And then I realize if I do that, I’ll never actually get to my assignments and there’s a lot more I should learn and should be devoting my time to that as well as being creative…

I don’t even know how I would turn my command line app into a web application. But it’s so fun and validating to be able to create something- it’s scary. I’m incredibly powerful with my Ruby magic already. Imagine how powerful I’ll be in a week, in 3 weeks. I just need to remember to stay humble and keep learning from the amazing programmers accessible to me at the Flatiron School.