How I Found Myself Loving Programming

At first, it was not even about becoming one serious tech guy or trying to sound like someone that knows coding, apps, startups and all those things. It started with simple curiosity.

I just wanted to know how things work. How apps are made. How games move when you press a certain control button. How websites are being published. How someone can think of an idea and later turn it into something people can use on their phones.

That curiosity slowly became something bigger.

I stopped seeing programming as just writing plenty lines of code. I started seeing it as a way for me to create things. A way for me to solve problems. A way to bring ideas out of my head and make them real.

The fact that you can look at a problem and say, “I can build something for this.”

As a medical student, I spend a lot of time learning about the human body, diseases, organs, systems and how life itself works. Medicine shows you how complex the body is. Programming also shows you how complex ideas can be broken down into small parts and built again into something useful. Somehow, both started making sense to me together.

That was when I started seeing that tech does not have to be far from medicine. It can actually help it.

That is part of why I started liking the idea of creating apps for students, quiz platforms, academic tools, medical revision apps and all that. I know how it feels when courses are heavy, materials are everywhere, exams are coming and you just need a better way to read and revise. So instead of only talking about the problem, I started thinking of what can be built.

Programming also took me into game development. I have always liked the idea of games, not just because they are fun, but because games can make people think, remember, compete, learn and still enjoy themselves.

Building games made me understand that programming is not only logic. It is also creativity. The design, the movement, the sound, the feeling, the way everything flows together, all of them matter.

Then later, I started seeing apps beyond just “projects.” I started seeing them as products. I started thinking about users, branding, launching, app stores, websites, communities, monetization and how something small can grow into something real.

That was when programming became more than code to me. It became a way into business and building startups.

I am still building. Still learning. Still failing sometimes. Still seeing errors that look like they were written in another universe. Still opening my laptop with confidence. And never for once have I ever thought about leaving tech for med school, or leaving med school for tech.

And that is one thing I love about it.

I love programming because it gives me freedom to create. I can wake up with an idea for a quiz app, a medical tool, a social platform, a game or a website, and with enough patience, I can start making it real.

That thing still feels crazy to me. Maybe that is why I keep going back to it, even when it is stressing me. Maybe that is why I still choose it, even while studying medicine. Maybe that is why I see tech as more than just a skill.

I see it as a way to build the kind of future I imagine.

I am not just learning code. I am learning how to build things that can come out of my mind and become useful to people.

And honestly, that is how I found myself loving programming.

How I Found Myself Loving Programming