關于長壽

by Christopher Phillips

克里斯托弗·菲利普斯(Christopher Phillips)

免費代碼營可能幫助您長壽 (Free Code Camp Might Help You Live Longer)

Since I started my web development journey with Free Code Camp, I’ve felt more awake, more alert, and able to process information at greater speeds. What I didn’t realize until recently is that coding there might actually help me live longer, too.

自從我通過Free Code Camp開始Web開發之旅以來，我感到更加清醒，更加警惕，并且能夠更快地處理信息。 直到最近我才意識到，在那里編碼實際上也可以幫助我長壽。

There have been a lot of studies into dementia and Alzheimer’s — specifically regarding keeping one’s brain active and learning other languages, to which coding contributes.

關于癡呆癥和阿爾茨海默氏癥的研究很多，特別是關于保持大腦活躍和學習其他語言的研究，而編碼對語言有貢獻。

The primary term is “cognitive reserve” — the ability for your brain to functionally compensate for natural degeneration.

主要術語是“認知儲備”，即大腦功能上補償自然退化的能力。

“ Research indicates that people who have solid stores of cognitive reserve are generally less likely to exhibit the classic signs of dementia — short-term memory loss, difficulty multitasking. “

研究表明，擁有堅實的認知儲備的人通常不太可能表現出癡呆癥的經典征兆-短期記憶喪失，多任務處理困難。 “

So how could you improve cognitive reserve with coding?

那么，如何通過編碼來提高認知儲備呢？

1. Problem solving: Coding challenges your brain in different ways, forcing you to open new neural pathways. It increases efficiency, and improves your brain’s ability to work under challenging conditions. This means that if you suffer a brain injury, degenerative or otherwise, your brain is more likely to be able to function at a higher level afterwards.

   問題解決 ：編碼以不同的方式挑戰您的大腦，迫使您打開新的神經通路。 它可以提高效率 ，并提高您的大腦在嚴峻條件下的工作能力。 這意味著，如果您遭受大腦退化，變性或其他形式的傷害，那么以后您的大腦更有可能能夠發揮更高的功能。

2. Creativity: I’ve noticed a dramatic rise in my creativity and originality since I started to code. This creativity transcends my computer, too. My friends report that I’m coming up with more original ideas. This jives with a study that showed that there’s a link between “verbal creativity” and an increase in cognitive reserve.

   創造力 ：自從我開始編寫代碼以來，我注意到我的創造力和獨創性急劇上升。 這種創造力也超越了我的計算機。 我的朋友報告說，我提出了更多原始想法。 這項研究表明，“語言創造力”與認知儲備的增加之間存在聯系。

3. Opening new possibilities: Coding has opened my mind to endless creative possibilities. The creative process with coding is similar to when I studied my degree in anthropology and realized that the representations of culture around the world were infinitely varied. So too are the possibilities with code. This is opening up parts of my brain that I haven’t used for a long time, and could be improving my cognitive reserve.

   打開新的可能性 ：編碼使我對無限的創造可能性敞開心mind。 編碼的創作過程類似于我學習人類學學位的過程，當時我意識到世界各地的文化代表千差萬別。 代碼的可能性也是如此。 這打開了我很久沒有使用過的大腦部分，并且可能會改善我的認知儲備。

雙語 (Bilingualism)

There have been a multitude of studies showing that bilingualism can increase cognitive reserve. When processing a new language, older languages become activated to some degree in order to process new ones. This functional interaction produces more gray and white matter in the brain, leading to increased cognitive reserve. But can we assume that coding languages are the same?

大量研究表明雙語可以增加認知儲備。 在處理新語言時，較舊的語言在某種程度上被激活以便處理新語言。 這種功能性相互作用會在大腦中產生更多的灰色和白色物質，從而導致認知儲備的增加。 但是我們可以假設編碼語言是相同的嗎？

A study from the University of Passau involved conducting brain scans on 17 volunteers while they read source code. They found that programming languages and natural languages activated the same parts of the brain, and in similar ways.

帕紹大學的一項研究涉及在17名志愿者閱讀源代碼時對其進行腦部掃描。 他們發現編程語言和自然語言以相似的方式激活了大腦的相同部分。

Increasing your cognitive reserve not only reduces risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia, it has also been shown to have an effect on incidence of vascular injury, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, HIV, and multiple sclerosis. You’re not just stopping dementia by coding — you are having an effect on many other ailments.

增加您的認知儲備不僅可以減少阿爾茨海默氏癥和癡呆癥的風險，而且還顯示出它對血管損傷，帕金森氏病，腦外傷，HIV和多發性硬化癥的發病率有影響。 您不僅可以通過編碼來阻止癡呆癥，還可以影響許多其他疾病。

為什么選擇FreeCodeCamp？ (Why FreeCodeCamp?)

So why have I specifically referenced Free Code Camp? I feel that their open source curriculum is more independent than any other I have tried, which simply leads me to use more brain matter than others. This should increase my cognitive reserve even more.

那么，為什么我要專門引用“ 免費代碼營”呢？ 我覺得他們的開源課程比我嘗試過的任何其他課程都更加獨立，這直接導致我比其他人使用更多的大腦知識。 這應該會進一步增加我的認知儲備。

With Free Code Camp, I’m not merely watching videos or reading tutorials — I’m creating entire projects from a blank canvas, such my recent Weather App.

借助Free Code Camp，我不僅在觀看視頻或閱讀教程，而且還在空白畫布上創建整個項目，例如最近的Weather App 。

Next time you’re struggling, beavering away at a second coding language, or simply learning some new grammar or syntax in your first, don’t dismay. It could save your life.

下次當您在苦苦掙扎，精疲力竭地使用第二種編碼語言，或者只是在第一次學習一些新的語法或語法時，請不要沮喪。 它可以挽救您的生命。

Originally published on Chris Phillips’ blog.

最初發表在克里斯·菲利普斯(Chris Phillips)的博客上 。

翻譯自: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-might-help-you-live-longer-5c5f5104d31e/

關于長壽