Some people blanch at an English Major turning to programming, but is it really so absurd? Storytellers and communicators created the written language long ago. They did that so we could build new worlds: new worlds are built with thoughts being shared and then put to the work of hands and tools to create everything we know -- from agriculture, to societies, transportation, computers, and beyond anything yet imagined.
The first programming language was the written word. Is it so strange then, that a maker and a storyteller would turn to the programming languages? After all, computer languages are far more expressive in many ways: with well written code, you can literally make entire worlds -- not just cue them within your reader's imagination.
Like the written word, programming can be used for great good, or to do great harm. I'd like to help write the world that grows compassion, weeds out hate, and inspires hearts and heads to make beautiful and lasting things.
Learning to speak with computers so that I can speak with you.
About
Reed Meher is a student of code on a journey to write new worlds with technology and the languages it speaks. With humble North Dakota origins, Reed has travelled the globe and worked any job he could get his hands on that would help him meet his goal: to experience humanity, to learn how to have something worth saying, and to find something worth doing. His way is to test every limit he sets for himself and to constantly reimagine what is possible.
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“It is interesting that the most effective way we've found to communicate with a computer borrows so heavily from the way we communicate with each other.”
- Marijin Haverbeke, Eloquent JavaScript
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