Where code becomes language

I started The Art of Code because I genuinely think computer science is exciting, and I don’t think it always gets presented that way. A lot of technology now is basically treated as a black box. We use it, it works, and most of the time we don’t really think about what is happening underneath. And especially with how much people talk about AI right now, it can sometimes seem like AI is computer science, or that everything else is somehow old news. In my opinion, that’s bull. Computer science is far from dead. It is constantly evolving, and AI is only one part of it. There is so much going on behind the technology we use every day, and so many ideas that are genuinely fascinating once you actually get to see how they work. That is really what I want to do with The Art of Code. I want to show younger students that computer science is more than coding, more than AI, and definitely more than a black box that you have to already understand to be interested in. You don’t need to consider yourself a “computer science person.” You just need to be curious about how things work. If this publication can get even a few people to look at something they normally wouldn’t think twice about and go, “Wait, that’s actually really cool,” then I think it has done what I wanted it to do.

Mia Noy
Editor, The Art of Code