Sane

I've started to notice a significant relationship with programming towards the progression of learning and even right down to basic lifestyle.

Ever since I've gotten really in to Programming, I always find myself ever thinking stuff through. It's almost like a curse, but as a result everything I think through usually has no rough edges. And when I'm not thinking random stuff through, I'm using that concentration on my work, almost as if programming has trained my work ethics.

Then if I look back when I did my CCAT test (the test to get you in to the gifted program), I had just started programming. I got %82.3 or something. A year later after I had been spending a lot of time programming, I got %99.9 on the very same test.

Now I find math ridiculously easy. Mostly on all logical problem solving questions, and linear equations. It's just so much like programming, matching situations to a system. I've been scoring perfects on tests without even doing my homework and knowing the content ... quite curious actually. And all the new content we are learning this year just seems so obvious!!

Programming has also seemed to have really opened my mind, I'll listen much more to what's going on around me without trying or even wanting to. I hate my Civics class, but for some reason I can't tune it out! I haven't been doing any of my homework, but I still know all the material because I have the curse of automatically absorbing what I'm hearing. Sort of like a baby and its "sponge-like brain". A baby doesn't necessarily try to learn, but will end up doing so anyways (very productively too). Although this might not be directly associated to the programming I've been doing, I still believe it has a connection.

It's wierd how everything is changing for me, and seeming to become much easier, much more fun. During the same time I've been programming around 4-10 hours a day, I don't think it's a coincidence.

The girls seem to like me more too, but that's a whole different story. Hahaha. :p

Any similar tales?