This is something I relate to, as I first started getting into coding while I was in elementary school. I started with Microsoft Visual Studio, and wrote my fir

This is something I relate to, as I first started getting into coding while I was in elementary school. I started with Microsoft Visual Studio, and wrote my first bits of code in Visual Basic. In high school implemented a DMX lighting controller driver and built a simplistic binary search in order to determine which address a given light dimmer was on in the local performance hall. I built my first webpage in 6 or 7th grade, but the most amazing thing is I gave up many of these early interests mostly because I wanted to "Fit in" in highschool. I took on an interest in film and photography, and even did 2 years of college majoring in documentary film. In my spare time I occasionally tinkered with Arduino and Raspberry Pi's, trying out python and other things, but never really got very far. The biggest change happened when I landed a job for a production company, and 5 or 6 months in their lead developer decided to leave. Remarkably, I was incredibly unsatisfied with where I was in the company. I found that creating advertising videos for people who didn't want to shell out the cash to do it right was incredibly destructive to me and my creative drive. I saw an opportunity to learn, and set out to try to learn to build smart phone apps, as well as web-apps. Im 2 weeks away from transitioning to a new job as a full-stack software engineer. The road is long and hard, but I will say that living and breathing code for 2 years as a full time job really helps you learn a lot really fast. It was far more beneficial than taking a Computer Science program in college. I realize this isn't really why I stopped but kinda how I became what I am today. Yes it's incredibly confusing. Learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript, then to find Node, Gulp/Grunt, Sass/SCSS, and Angular. Then to have React come out, and learning all these libraries that are changing constantly, I totally understand how getting into the web can be hard. The truth is many people don't see the joy or power in it, and it seems too hard to even try. The key is to have a reason to learn. To force you to learn. Sorry for that long-winded response. :-)