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Friday, September 27, 2013

What computer science does to you...



             
You might have come across these people. They make jokes, you won’t understand,  they pull all nighters fixing one bug, they live on coffee and they find The Big Bang Theory funny. These people constitute a species of humans called ‘Computer scienticus ‘. They are Homo sapiens specialized in computer science and to some extent, they have become a totally different species.  I don’t know if that’s evolution or regression but these people are definitely not normal.
            How did they get to be so different? Well, there can only be one explanation; the elixir that has over time poisoned their minds, Computer science. It’s like a drug that has given them the illusion that nothing is impossible, all problems have solutions and it all starts with a strategy. They will tend to speak in weird languages called codes so they appear smart but that’s just another proof of their intoxication. They tend to think they are normal because they haven’t yet realized that they are drunk. The catch is what they do for a living is work magic.
            I know there are magic tricks and Santa but my definition of real magic is slightly different. Magic happens when a problem is solved at the right time and place. When there is a medical emergency and all have to do is call an ambulance. That’s magic. When you need to retrieve information and you press a button, it is fetched from wherever it was. That’s magic. Now, Computer scientists are the guys whose brains are trained to make magic. They are the guys, who worry about what goes on in the background, so that everyone else doesn’t have to.
            In short, here is what computer science does to you. It makes you ‘high’. It makes you think strategically, makes you see the world in objects, loops and Booleans .There appears to be no impossible problem because all you have to do type in some code and stuff magically happens. It all seems natural because the world was created with the words of mouth anyway. Everyone else notices that you are drunk but they keep hoping you’ll wake up to reality and the sad part is you won’t since this effect isn’t just temporary.
           
            You might have come across computer scientists and wondered how they can be so ‘drunk’. Well, now you know why. If I had the power to reformat education all over the world, I would make sure each and everyone knows how to code. I don’t mind having a world of ‘drunk’ people, after all they work magic. Computer science is simply magic; don’t expect its experts to be normal.
           


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