I Believe in Programming Principles 🧠
13 June 2021
I’ll keep this one short. I believe that there is a distinct value in thinking like a programmer that transcends the knowledge of a particular language.
Actually—I don’t just believe that there is. I know that there is.
Right now I’m diving deep into the React framework. Building apps which fired off numerous components based off of an array of data changed the way I think about building pages in general. “Hard coding is for fools! Automate that mess!”
As a result I refactored an aspect of my portfolio page with the same principle in mind. I figured out a way—in Liquid, a totally different framework—to do essentially the same thing I was doing in React. Same programming principle. Different language.
My lightbulb 💡 moment was hardly the Copernican revolution. But the whole process did cement in my mind the idea that programming know-how is independent (at least to a degree) of specific languages.