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That's really cool! Have you ever considered taking coding classes or code camps to go along with your law degree?
by aakriti1215 9y ago
That's really cool! Have you ever considered taking coding classes or code camps to go along with your law degree?
- terminalcommand 9y agoI'm continuing to code, I never stopped. Nowadays I code for fun, experiment with different languages, contribute to OSS projects. Coding is not an issue for me, it comes naturally. Of course I wish I had the ability to receive formal training and I secretly envy people who are able to study and contribute to the field of CS. However, after years of resistance, I came to realize that I also like law. Rules of society and software engineering have a lot of common. Both in Law and Programming you think of edge cases, debug thinks, try to express yourself clearly. What's most interesting is that in Law, I also heard people using principles, which I am familiar from computers. For example in a moot court I attended, a catchphrase was that "if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's a duck". Or when we prepare for pleadings our coaches always instructed us to Keep It Simple. Another example is when we wrote a memorandum, we started with constructing an outline (a.k.a top-down design :D), we constantly made reviews, argued heavily about restructuring (a.k.a refactoring :) ).