Week 3: Why Geeks Should Write

First of all, I am very sorry about the fact that I have not posted anything until now. To be honestly, I am not used to write things, especially this blog-ish kind. Therefore, I did not put much attention on this and totally forgot writing this while I was busy preparing some tests and quizs.

However, what happens on me might be a very good explanation of why computer scientists, or so-called Geeks, should keep logs as well as other writings.

Above all, I do not feel uncomfortable with the term Geek. It used to have a rather negative connotation in the past, but now I believe that is not the case anymore.

Nonetheless, there are certainly some properties that most Geeks probably share. As described above, I am definitly not good at writing and somehow not organized. This is one of the symptoms of "Geeks are not good at social communication". Nowadays, that may not be right anymore, but there are reasons why this would become a typical symbolism of Geeks. Another case is, as a computer science studnet, I am interested in codes more than words, in other words, more interests in "computer language" than "human language".

But this doesn't effect the fact that writing is important to Geeks also. Other than the social communication need of us as a human being, human writing style works as an easier way of recording infomation. Using codes helps us understand the way computer works more, but when it comes to conclusion and recording, it will never surpass the human way of thinking. After all, we are human beings so we have more privileges when we use our own way to think sometimes.

That is what I understand and conclude so far after reading a couple of articles about how logs are important computer scientists, particularly related to debugging field. Therefore, I will try to catch up and get used to do this, in order to be good enough to call myself Geek, a term that I will be proud of.