The feedback loop is what got me hooked to programming. If it wasn't for that, I'm not sure what I would do. I used to do more writing, and wasn't very confiden

The feedback loop is what got me hooked to programming. If it wasn't for that, I'm not sure what I would do. I used to do more writing, and wasn't very confident in my writing, was it any good? I wouldn't really know, no feedback whatsoever. Sometimes it would feel like you just wrote stuff and it went into a black hole. With programming it works (... or it doesn't). Of course, there are abstractions and clean ways to write a program so in the end I think my prior experience in writing has benefitted me in programming.