My CS History, Part 1: Creative Appeal

My first impression of Computer Science really had nothing to do with solving problems or what coding actually looks like. Really, it had nothing to do with logic, but the appeal of simply being capable of creation. I mean, other forms of art are capable of it too; however, something about computers was just more appealing or simply that everything that other forms of art can create can be translated into something digital. At the time I had thought it was a one way thing, but even when not so that fact makes the computer a sort of central hub. I suppose the seemingly endless possibilities it offered was most enticing.

But since I've been talking about art, the computer's biggest tool for that: Adobe Photoshop, right? And of course there are offshoots of it, but the point is that in one central place the computer can simulate the same effects as physically drawing or painting, etc. Also, even if it cannot do a certain thing that physically crafting can now, eventually it will. Whereas the reverse seems less likely, it is not particularly practical to find a way to recreate a custom effect on the computer in 'real' life.