The constructed Environment

As someone born and raised in Germany, having spent nearly all of my time in industrialized countries. I have been immersed in an environment shaped nearly entirely by human hands and minds. Nearly everything that I touch in a normal day was either shaped by or put there deliberately by humans. In our late-capitalist/neoliberal society so many things are done in pursuit of eventually selling the result of that action on "the Market" and making a "profit" without ever defining why that needs to be done beyond making sure that as many people as possible have reliable access to the necessities of human existance. Being surrounded by so much stuff I have come to think that making things must be an easy. This turns out to be quite wrong, making the previous observation so much more puzzling.

The next part of computer programming, this time I shift the focus to programming languages, the main, but far from the only tool of the trade.

So in [the last post]{@/Computers/basics_of_computer_programming_introduction.md} I tried to guide through the type of programs that are normally visible to the user.

Coding is a buzzword, being able to write computer programs is a highly sought after skill and something that can come in very handy from time to time. There are many ways to write code that depend on a myriad of different constraints and requirements. There is undoubtedly an art to writing computer programs. Here I would like to share the philosophy and techniques that I have come to use and find useful over the many years I have been programming.

The question of why is by far the most important question to answer. Without the why, the rest of what I have read may very well be the class in school that you always loathed. So here I want to make it my task to get you intrigued about learning how to program.