so how did i get into this? well, it started when i was a little kid, watching Katy Perry music videos on the iMac in our living room. even then, my parents were pretty astonished at how intuitively i navigated the computer. i loved playing all the little games i could find on websites like PBS Kids, and this quickly became the main thing i associated the internet with (to be expected of a kid that age).
i played all kinds of silly flash games and stuff on my grandma's computer with my brother, and eventually i came across the infamous geektyper, which of course i used to scare everyone i knew and try to convince them i was already some kind of tiny evil hackerman.
but fun and games can only get you by for so long; eventually i had to get my hands dirty.
in middle school i started learning HTML and CSS through a website i found (the glorious products of which are clearly evident before you), and i actually understood it pretty well! i learned how good it feels to create, and how well the computer can serve as a canvas.
then, as i entered high school, i started learning about the real heavy duty stuff... that's right, i picked up Python! got a 4 in ap computer science principles because i didn't pay attention at all, but sophomore year i started realizing "hey, i actually kinda like learning new things" and devoted myself to the glorious study of Java.
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at first, i couldn't make sense of Java's weird syntax (the bane of every new learner) and its strange approach - but when the object-oriented bug finally bit, it bit FIERCE.
i couldn't get enough of classes, inheritance, and polymorphism, and very quickly advanced past my prior conception of coding as something fun, but somewhat monotonous and laborious. java made designing systems feel like an art.
once i started figuring out how computers work, i also began seeing how to bend them to my will. i was in fourth grade when i opened the Chrome dev tools for the first time, and now i'm studying for my CompTIA Security+ certification.
