Sadly, this isn’t a recipe for conquering the world…
No, it’s about the joys to be found playing make-believe, with future users of an app you’re writing – eg like this Day 01 programming task: to write a countdown timer (and help you feel like you’re Elon Musk for the day):
“3
2
1
Liftoff!”
“I can do that already, by just typing that out!” – you might say.
But this way (the programming way) you could ask anyone who uses your app if they’d rather count down from 10 instead – or from like a hundred, or a million (they might not have gotten their spaceships ready for launch just yet).
There’s no limit… with a program, there’s just a few clicks to it – instead of having to type out every number between 1 and a million.
For starters, the user may want to repeat the countdown:
“4
3
2
1
Liftoff!
Type ‘R’ to repeat, or ‘Q’ to quit the program. If you’d like to check the weather where you live then close down the app and go and do that.”
No limits to how much you personality you can bolt on once the mechanism is bullet proof.
Do yourself a favour and check out Scratch, it’s an easy introduction to the world of programming…