Design By Candlelight

Intro to Programming

My friend, Chris Stead, has been introducing me into programming. I have tried to pick up programming before but usually struggle with the concepts as I cannot visualize what the code is doing. Chris explained the basics of programming as such:

Imagine they (control structures) are like a police officer directing traffic around an accident, a really big accident. An accident that just about deleted the internets. They say turn, you turn. They say stop, you do it.

For is a control structure. It says ‘repeat this until Simon says stop.”‘

While is the same way.

If says ‘ONLY do this WHEN Simon says.’

That’s programming.

Oh, and else is the weird cling-on that follows If around and cleans up the leftover mess with a pooper-scooper.”

Using visual imagery to help me better understand how programming works, Chris has illustrated programming for me.

Tags: code, education, programming