How Cooking Is Like Coding

Cooking is hard work that’s often hard to be passionate about. Yet, once programmer Brett Terpstra started seeing the similarities to coding, the whole process became a lot more interesting.

This idea’s not necessarily a new one, but Terpstra’s blog post is a fun read, especially if you’ve always found cooking to be a chore. Here’s one example of the parallels:

Sites like Yummly have quickly become my GitHub for cooking. I can download and run a recipe, see the results, and in the process of executing the recipe code, I learn how each part works.

And like GitHub, you can copy and paste code, but you learn a lot more if you examine it, break it down, and then rebuild. Along the way you learn skills, syntaxes, and concepts that allow you to bend it to your will.

A single blog post won’t necessarily insight a spontaneous love for cooking in any old coder out there, but the framework’s a useful one for understanding the steps nonetheless.

Kitchen Coding | Brett Terpstra

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