Today I wanted to dive into my history with programming. I started being interested in programming when I was 12 years old. Like you would expect of a kid that age I was only interested in programming in order to make video games, which lead me to select C++ as the language I wanted to learn. My dad helped me start learning the language by working through an introductory book with me for a little while. However, it didn’t take long for me to lose interest in this due to the difficulty in learning the language but more importantly my own impatience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following my loss of interest in traditional programming I picked up Scratch, a block based programming language which was far more kid friendly. I spent a fair amount of time over the next couple of years creating my own small games. There was also a website where users could share their programs with each other. I remember spending time looking through this site until a game design or style caught my eye and then running off to create my own game based on it. While I never created anything large or groundbreaking, these games helped me learn a number of programming concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was older, my dad convinced me to try a traditional programming language again. Him and I followed a series of recorded college lectures which taught python to beginners. Following this class I continued making programs for fun as I had done with Scratch using this new medium. I still made some games using python but also branched out and made different types of programs. During this time I realized I was not very interested in creating games but I was interested in programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jumping ahead to college, I started my higher education going to Linn Benton Community College. As I had been home-schooled my entire life, this was the first time I had been in a classroom setting. I was happy to learn that the introductory course was also taught in python. I also learned a new language in the CS 161 and 162 courses because they used Java. One of the last courses I took at LBCC was a course in the C programming language, which was a style of language I had not touched since I was 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since I transferred to OSU, I have learned many new languages. In web development I learned JS, operating systems taught me BASH, and I learned SQL from introduction to databases. The list of languages I have learned at OSU also includes Haskell, MatLab, and C++ among others<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope to graduate this spring and continue my adventure of programming with a career where I can learn new skills and grow as a programmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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