prog as art post draft

author: Kumar Damani <me@kumardamani.net> 2023-01-03 18:13:10 +0000
committer: Kumar Damani <me@kumardamani.net> 2023-01-03 18:13:10 +0000
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+author = "Kumar Damani"
+title = "Romanticism in Programming"
+date = "2022-11-29"
+draft = true
+description = "How programming is romantic."
+tags = [
+    "personal"
+]
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+
+Why there is art in programming.
+<!--more-->
+
+During the early days as a CS student we were learning about loops,
+and saw "Hello World!" getting printed out to the console N-thousands of times
+in just 3 functional lines of code. 
+
+for 1 to 1000:
+  print "Hello World!"
+
+This felt like having the Elder Wand at the time.
+
+But there was more to our lesson. 
+The TA then asks us to put our newly found power to use by computing the 
+sum of 1 to 100. Of course, it was a natural application of our topic:
+
+sum = 0
+for i in 1 to 100:
+  sum = sum + i
+
+Sure enough we saw the answer 5050 in the console.
+But then the TA reminds us that we are making our computers work too hard. 
+It needs to do 100 basic ADD instructions in order to make this computation happen.
+
+What if it the number was a million? How well would our method scale?
+Well then it would take a million basic ADD instructions. 
+Seems like this scales with "linearly" with the input size. 
+Later we would formalize this to O(n).
+
+The TA hinted that there is a better way, and that we already know of the better way in math.
+
+sum = n(n+1)/2
+
+With this we are no longer using loops, but a known mathematical fact about sequences.
+This one-liner solves our problem with 3 basic (ADD, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE) instructions.
+It does not depend on the size of the input like our previous solution, thus 
+no matter the input, it always takes 3 instructions to compute!
+This is a HUGE win!
+Later we would formalize this to O(1), or "constant" scaling.
+
+> IRL the complier would optimize the loop solution such that it does not take N instructions
+but for the purposes of learning we were not allowed to depend on that.
+
+Looking back at it now,
+Both solutions are equally correct, and modern compilers would optimize the first solution
+in the final instructions such that any performance differences would be negligible.
+Objectively, the first solution is more readable, and friendly to a new observer than the second.
+Yet I am still so drawn to the second solution.
+
+The first solution reminds me of the saying "to a hammer, eveything looks like a nail".
+Its a brute force approach.
+In comparison, with the second solution, using the exact tool for our particular problem
+somehow feels personalized and even "romantic".
+
+Most often in programming, we don't have such clear optimizations. It often comes down to 
+using the correct data-structures for the correct situation, and elegance emerges as a result.
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+        <p>Why programming I see programming as an art form.</p>
+<p>It started off in my first year as a CS student during a lecture about loops.
+It was mind-bending to see &ldquo;Hello World!&rdquo; getting printed out to the console N-thousands of times
+in just 3 functional lines of code.</p>
+<p>But there was more. The TA then asks us to put our newly found power to use by producing the
+sum of 1 to 100. Ofcourse, it was a natural application of our topic. We simply set the limit,
+and do an increment a sum in the loop&rsquo;s body.</p>
+<p>Sure enough we saw the answer 5050 in the console.
+But then the TA reminds us that we are making that computer work too hard.
+It needs to do 100 basic ADD instructions in order to make this happen.
+What if it was a million?
+Is there a better way?</p>
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+      <title>Romanticism in Programming</title>
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+      <description>&lt;p&gt;Why programming I see programming as an art form.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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       <title>Why do I self-host?</title>
       <link>https://kumardamani.net/post/self-host/</link>
author	Kumar Damani <me@kumardamani.net>	2023-01-03 18:13:10 +0000
committer	Kumar Damani <me@kumardamani.net>	2023-01-03 18:13:10 +0000
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