Your First Successful Code

Have you ever felt that rush of enjoyment and fulfillment within you after completing a task that you never thought would actually be possible by your own effort?

Well, to accomplish your first little small program feels 10 times more exhilarating than anything you can imagine for me.

Sometimes though you don’t even realize till later on after creating a program how you actually did it but once you understand, you feel as if you conquered the world.

Building a program is similar to building a puzzle up from scratch, you may not be able to see all the pieces and how they are going to fit in the beginning, all you have is a problem which you decide the solution and with this concept in mind, you start to plan your strategy on how to tackle this problem.

Without a plan, you are going to get lost in a world of crashes and confusion that makes you second guess and go through hours of reflection and double checking which then you start to regret not sticking to the plan or making a plan in the first place.

Finally, you get back on track and follow it one step at a time, testing every little move you make, starting to feel good and confident once again, feeling that you are getting somewhere and you are close to your goal.

The time has come to run your program, smiling inside to yourself, pumped up, ready to scream and shout to the world that you’ve done it, you click that button for your program to run and then you wait, you wait a few seconds more maybe you never click it but the program is running and you see nothing happens or you see a whole list of stories telling you about the errors you encountered.

You start scanning your code with your eyes line by line trying to identify these errors hoping you find them in minutes yet spend a whole hour for at times a single comma. That feeling when you spend so much time when it’s just a single comma is, well you just have to experience it to know.

By this stage, you have ran your program a hundred times still getting the same outcome or something different every time.

Suddenly it happens, your program actually appears and works.

The joy that will engulf you and make you burst in excitement knowing you did it, you actually did it, is an amazing feeling I wish for everyone to know.

I hope you enjoyed this experience of your first successful code or program. I just wanted to share with all that feeling and how it is to create your first code as this may vary for others but this is generally how it would go about.