Websites are fun.
I’m making a wedding website for my cousin, using Drupal. One of the awesome things about making websites is that lay-people tend to be really impressed by how much you can do relatively quickly, especially if you’re making a static website. Or if you’re using Drupal and there’s a module for everything you could possibly want to do (for a simple webpage, anyway) and all you have to do is download, activate and configure it. It makes me feel like I’m really smart – much smarter than I actually am.
That’s what I enjoy most about CS – making things with tangible results that make life easier in some small way. Of course, a mostly static Drupal website is a very very simple example of this, but I’m still enjoying it a lot. What I really need to do now is learn how to write some modules for open source software that I use. I should write a Firefox add-on that I can actually use, or Notepad++, or Drupal, or whatever. I’ll get right on that, in all of my spare time. :) But for now, time to get back to homework!
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