What Is Code? Reading Response

A Quote from What Is Code?Article: "That raw speed makes it possible to pull off not one but multiple sleights of hand, card tricks on top of card tricks. Take a bunch of pulses of light reflected from an optical disc, apply some math to unsqueeze them, and copy the resulting pile of expanded impulses into some memory cells—then read from those cells to paint light on the screen. Millions of pulses, 60 times a second. That’s how you make the rubes believe they’re watching a movie."

Presenting us with an undeniable truth that humans can do what computers can do, but cannot do them in a comparable high speed and repetition, an article “What Is Code?” smashes us with a reality that computers are becoming increasingly dominant and popular in our lives. In addition to giving us the truth, it also provides us with various examples of how code affects our lives and makes our lives easier, which is a quote that I cited above. Besides that, the author begins the article with a memory of frustrated ignorance and helpless acceptance of a proposal of project from a person who earns less money than him. My thoughts on this are that coding can really help us understand what world we live in currently, and that those of us that think coding is not for us can certainly start to learn coding. In the article, the author mentions his “code-resistant brain,” which certainly means a lot, because the article page is coded by the author himself. It shows his obvious emphasis of how coding may seem very impossible, but is actually possible. As a beginner at coding, I myself found hope while reading this article, and thought that I wanted to explore more of and learn more about this mysterious (at least to me right now), marvelous, and useful computer language.