Welcome to the Programmer’s Eye - How the world around you already speaks like code

Before we learn how to write code, we need to learn how to see the world like a programmer. This means noticing patterns and sequences in everyday life — the same way a program follows steps.


A Strange Realization

Stand on a hill and watch an airplane flying across the sky. It looks effortless. But inside that plane, nothing is random. The pilot is not guessing how to fly the airplane.

It is following:

  • Procedures
  • Systems
  • Sequences
  • Instructions

Step after step.

That is not computer code. But it is the same kind of thinking that creates computer programs.


Life Is Full of Algorithms (We Just Don’t Call Them That)

Now think about your favorite food.

Maybe it’s:

  • Pizza
  • Dumplings
  • Sushi
  • Pasta
  • Anything you love

To make it, you need:

  • Ingredients
  • Steps
  • Timing
  • Experience

In the kitchen, people call it a recipe. In programming, we call the same idea an algorithm.

Same concept. Different word.


Everyone Is Programming Without Knowing It

A bike rider follows a set of steps:

  • Balance
  • Brake
  • Turn
  • Accelerate

A swimmer follows patterns:

  • Breathe
  • Move
  • Float

People live inside patterns. And programmers are simply people who notice patterns clearly.


A programmer does not walk around thinking:

Programmers don’t walk around saying: ‘Algorithm, algorithm!’ That would be exhausting.

  • Solve a problem
  • Build something
  • Understand a system
  • Design a solution


What This Course Really Teaches

This course is not here to teach you code first. It is here to teach you something more important:

How to see.

Because once you can see patterns… Code becomes just a language.


A Small Exercise (Your First Step)

Think of one thing you do daily:

  • Making tea
  • Riding a bike
  • Studying
  • Cooking

Ask yourself:

  • What is the goal?
  • What are the steps?
  • What happens if one step changes?
  • What sequence did you notice in your own day?
  • How did your body or brain “follow rules” automatically?

Congratulations.

You just thought like a programmer.


What Comes Next

Now that your eye is open…

If the world is full of “things” that have behavior… How do programmers represent those things?

That is where the idea of an object begins.


Welcome to Awashyak.

You are not learning code yet.

You are learning how to see the world like a programmer.

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