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It is only natural! Linguistics play a big role in the syntactical definition of formal languages. Check out(for example) some stuff about the Backus Naur Form and start seeing how it applies to language design. It is a very interesting concept :D I owe my appreciation of it to my wife, she studied Linguistics.
And yes my dude, dreaming in code is very real albeit sometimes it comes more of as a nightmare! -
@AleCx04 Cool, I'll take a look!
I'm in education / linguistics, so here's hoping it'll help with the coding.
Really interested in natural language processing, but that's something for another day. -
@oSullivan I would actually recommend going into it already :) you don't have to be an expert developer to run into any of the fields of AI, if anything you just need to get good with your math. Try it man don't shy away from it, the sooner the better!
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@AleCx04 That's really encouraging, thanks. I'll have to think on it again.
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Similar experience, I don't dream in code but whenever I see, for example a flashy text sign at a store, I immediately put together a pseudocode for it.
This applies to literally anything but especially embedded systems as I'm familiar with some of them.
But yeah, appears that subconsciously 'coding' isn't too rare, cool eh? -
@smirving I do think it was mostly imagined code. JavaScript mixed with Python, all with an HTML accent!?
I read once that dreams can be our brains way of compiling information from the day. So, I guess it'd make sense that I saw endless lines of this and that.
And thanks, I will do. 👍
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Dreaming in Code!
I know very little code at this point. Mostly HTML, CSS and a sprinkling of JavaScript and Python.
That was clearly enough for my brain to generate some imaginary lines and fill the gaps in a night of wild dreams.
I guess any code language works much like human languages with grammars, vocabularies and punctuations.
So dreaming in code isn't all that odd?!
Whether you're learning Japanese or JavaScript, Portuguese or Python, you need to read, repeat and regurgitate.
I hope that's what my mind attempted last night. Not the most visually inspiring of dreams, but certainly vivid.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Has anyone tried applying language learning tricks to learning coding?
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