Hello World: The Significance of the First Step

 print("Hello World!")  

This is usually the first line of code that someone writes when they first start learning a programming language. This, or some version of it. It's practically a tradition to use "Hello World!" as a test message to demonstrate basic syntax to novice programmers. For me, since Python 3 was the first programming language I learned, the line above was my very first line of code.

I love the "Hello, World!" tradition because it imparts a sense of adventure and discovery. Learning to code is truly like exploring another world. Or perhaps it is more accurate to compare it to someone pulling back a curtain and revealing that the world you've always lived in has a whole other dimension. Suddenly you see things differently.

It's only fitting then that I launch my first technical blog with the same words. It is, after all, a beginning: a venture into a new world.

Hello, World! Stef has some things to share with you.