Is coding relevant?
By starting, the career of programming or the hobby of developing software development for an assigned project is important to understand why it matters. It could be that from such project or assignment it depends a subject or some money that we would like to earn. Anyway, understanding the benefits of programming could be a starting point to know if this is something worth doing or not.
By knowing how to program, it could be developed skills that can be applicable for other activities in life.
- Disintegration of tasks. Breaking down a complex problem or system into smaller, more manageable parts is a part of the process of programming that has to be done to be able to start a mind-blowing project of any level.
- According to divide and conquer algorithm from Wikipedia: “A divide and conquer algorithm works by recursively breaking down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly. The solutions to the sub-problems are then combined to give a solution to the original problem.”
- This type of approach is one that not just works perfectly in the programming realm, but also at other complex exercise that any individual activity that requires a gradual development for completion.
- Algorithm recognition. By programming, looking for resemblances among and within problems in the project is a crucial part in the development of the task.
- In this part of the development of the project or task, it is very important to understand when a problem seems to be repeating itself and how to recognize the patter within it to predict future mistakes that could be made by the programmer or by the piece of software or firmware that as a programmer, we are writing.
- Concept. Focusing on the significant information only, disregarding irrelevant parts is something that is learned during the process of developing a piece of software or firmware. This skill is useful for other disciplines or exercises due to the fact that allow us to practice the custom of isolate the problems and focus in those during an undivided time.
- This training of isolating details of much bigger problems is a key factor in the healthy development of solutions in programming and in problem solving anything.
It also resembles a process of starting a company. Who would say coding can be so versatile. Thanks for the new point of view on programming.
Very good article, the points you are mentioning also fit properly in project management & quality assurance discipline.