How Learning Web Development Made Me Better

Learning how to code is an invaluable skillset. Sure, there’s the financial benefits, but understanding website and application development offers non-tangible benefits that are perhaps even more important than monetary gain.

Here are two ways that coding has shaped who I am.

It’s Given Me Patience

I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m impatient.

Look, I’m a Taurus. It’s in my astrological blood to be impatient!

Willingly signing up for a Coding Bootcamp was the universe’s clever way to get back at me for my restlessness over the years. I can just hear the coding Gods laughing at the fact that I thought this would be easy! No siree.

I like things to be done efficiently. I like them to be straightforward. I like them to be simple. When it’s none of those things, I get mad. And I get impatient.

Learning to code has stretched my patience (and my sanity) more than I can explain in words. There have been nights where I feel like I’m going around in the same circle over… and over… and over again, only to get the same result as my first time around the carousel.

Coding doesn’t give you the option of impatience. It forces to you to go through if you want to go out — and sometimes, that takes hours upon hours.

I’m still learning when it comes to the Patient department, but I’ve gone further than I ever thought I could have.

It’s Improved My Problem-Solving Skills

Before I learned how to code, I saw the world and my daily decisions as black and white. Each decision I made throughout the day had a left and a right, and a right and a wrong.

That kind of thinking often made me feel a bit stuck. What if neither left nor right was the optimal direction? After all, couldn’t I just go… straight?

Part of the reason Math is my favorite subject is because most of the time, there’s one straightforward way to get the right result. I thrive in straightforward. But coding is not straightforward.

During my first couple weeks of Coding Bootcamp, I was faced with many challenges that required me to think outside the box and change my worldview. The Coding Challenges that were presented to us could have been tackled in myriad ways. In fact, I suspect that the assignments subtly required us to explore each way to get to the right right.

Today, I approach problems differently by attacking them from all different angles.

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