Remapping my Brain

I appreciate how these articles encourage taking a step back before jumping into web design. They support the idea of, “the more you understand something, the better you will be able to use it.” It makes sense to me.  In another coding related course I've taken we were shown how to make something work then had to show we could make it work. I didn't take much away from that class. In here we are introduced to where this stuff came from, why it was made, what it is, how it works, and then we take a stab at it. Knowing these languages instead of regurgitating code will make us better designers.

The concept of remapping my brain in the “grok” article helped illustrate the process of “crossing over.” I do think in codes but not in code. I think in pictures, symbols, semantics, art, and mechanics and this article explains that this is what code is. Coding language isn't arbitrary, it’s a language! Coding is only restrictive because of my unfamiliarity. HTML is the mother tongue, and CSS is the style language. Knowing HTML will provide the structure of my content, and CSS provides the format of the structured content, precision, and more options.  After structuring my content I can style it, or hold my inner artist back until my inner writer and engineer have settled down.