The more I study programming, the more I miss the correlation of code to visual representation. Like my earliest coding that stuck in my brain is when I could translate HTML tables and CSS to the way a page is displayed. Tweak these values and the page looks different. It’s immensely satisfying and even after all these decades it’s a great feeling to use a scripting language to determine the way something will look.
Vs. the C++ programming I’ve been undertaking recently which has thus far been about mapping out programing requirements and systems to manage data that has no visual representation beyond perhaps a pivot table in a spreadsheet.
All of which is to say I probably won’t become a systems programmer, but I hope I can start to draw connections to how this translates to UI programming, or, dare I say it, gameplay programming and design?