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There is a creative process that develops in the relationship between the individual and the computer or browser when raw coding. This happens when, working in isolation, you have an idea for a page, maybe some napkin sketches, and you are creating the page by raw coding from scratch.
You write up the code and create the layout on the fly - guided only by some gut felt ideas - those quick sketches.
What starts to happen then is quite amazing.
You code a bit, save the changes, refresh your browser window and see how you're progressing. Something hasn't turned out quite how you expected it to but looks good so you keep it.
You code a bit, save the changes, refresh your browser window and see how you're progressing. It's not working out. Somethings wrong. But it has given you another idea. Something better. You keep on coding to the new idea.
You code a bit, save the changes, refresh your browser window and see how you're progressing. Over and over you do this while the object is changing and growing organically in the time it takes to refresh your page.
This is a process that anyone who has ever tried to raw code in HTML has felt. Sometimes with anxiety and sometimes frustration while you're learning. The lovely thing is as you get better at coding, those feelings become feelings of excitement.
When you've started at point A and finished at B and the process has been unpredictable, loose, spontaneous and based in part in chance then you'll feel quite different about the experience you've gone through. You'll feel a whole lot more human in front of your computer. You'll notice how similar coding and working with the browser is to singing, drawing or acting.
You'll recognise, like the unpredictable nature of lead in a pencil, your vocal cords or the hairs in a paint brush, that 'mistakes' or the very nature of what you work THROUGH to create, while changing your initial idea or vision is the very thing that can create tension, excitement and wonder in your finished object.
It will take on a life larger than what you could ever have solely conceived of on your own without the chance happenings that occur while in the midst of a creative process.
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