Through Code - Conquering My Fear of Math
Transforming My Deficiency Into My Strength Using JavaScript and PHP For most of my life math had not only eluded me; it was a looming shadow. Like countless others, I had grown up with the burden of math anxiety. Numbers were very daunting on their own. Issues with formulas made all of them frightful. I believed that math was just "not for me." Until recently, however, I learned a crucial lesson: I'm a developer now. I solve problems on a daily basis. I write logic. I create features. I debug systems. Each one of these things involves math — for better or for worse. So I thought to myself: What would happen if I didn't run from math? What would happen if I restructured my approach to it? Then came the inspiration. A Batman Approach to Learning In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne encounters his greatest fear — bats — not through avoidance but instead by embracing them. He became what he feared. In turn, I was going to do the same with math. If math has always evoked fear, then why not challenge it head on — in a comfortable space? That comfortable space is code.
Transforming My Deficiency Into My Strength Using JavaScript and PHP
For most of my life math had not only eluded me; it was a looming shadow. Like countless others, I had grown up with the burden of math anxiety. Numbers were very daunting on their own. Issues with formulas made all of them frightful. I believed that math was just "not for me."
Until recently, however, I learned a crucial lesson: I'm a developer now. I solve problems on a daily basis. I write logic. I create features. I debug systems. Each one of these things involves math — for better or for worse.
So I thought to myself: What would happen if I didn't run from math? What would happen if I restructured my approach to it?
Then came the inspiration.
A Batman Approach to Learning
In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne encounters his greatest fear — bats — not through avoidance but instead by embracing them. He became what he feared. In turn, I was going to do the same with math. If math has always evoked fear, then why not challenge it head on — in a comfortable space?
That comfortable space is code.
