My programming story: I started with BASIC on an old pocket computer. I typed in games from a manual without really understanding how the code worked. In eighth

My programming story: I started with BASIC on an old pocket computer. I typed in games from a manual without really understanding how the code worked. In eighth grade, I programmed a bit in QBASIC in an informal computer class. Then, for years, I didn't program much except for a formula on my TI-82. I never learned the TI-82 programming language well enough to do anything more complex. Towards the end of high school, I got Internet access and learned HTML to build a web page. I took AP Computer Science (in C++) in my senior year and scored 5 on the exam. I majored in computer science at a top math/science university that isn't as well-known for CS as some other schools. I turned down some of the higher ranked CS schools, which was probably a mistake, especially as I wasn't even that interested in the other sciences. I'm more into languages, and I was interested in CS because of its creative and entrepreneurial potential. Fast forward to now: I started programming early and majored in CS, and I can write classes, objects, and functions, but I still don't really "get" programming. My algorithms course in college was all math and proofs that I didn't really understand. I've since gone through algorithm MOOCs and implemented some algorithms, but I still can't really apply them. My work involves some programming, but more of it is Linux administration. (I also don't really get how to deal with hardware because of my problems with anything physical.)