And that is all… for now.

I look around, as if awoken from a dream.

There is nobody else in my room. It’s just me and my laptop. A cold coffee mug. A ticking clock. An open editor with my program. I must have spaced out!

I peer into the code, trying to remember what I was doing.

In the neon light, I read my program—a list of instructions. There is a lot going on: there are if statements, variable declarations, commas and curly braces.

My code is the same as when I wrote it. And yet it somehow feels different.

It’s like there is more to it now.

A certain kind of clarity.

I let this feeling linger.

Stay with me.

And it stays.

I still get lost sometimes. But I know how to find my way back. I take things slow.

And on a good day, when the song of code enchants me and carries me away, I don’t even see the syntax. I see the values, and the wires that connect them.

Can you see them, too?

In the meantime, here are some things you could do:

• Read through these modules again.
• Test yourself.
• Read more code.
• And keep connecting the wires.