In highschool, I once competed in a statewide computer science competition. I had been coding for a few years by then, but mostly in qbasic and then php and Jav

In highschool, I once competed in a statewide computer science competition. I had been coding for a few years by then, but mostly in qbasic and then php and JavaScript. It turned out to be a written test and with the exception of some basics, it was mostly snippets of C code and then multiple choice responses that describe what the code did. Or the reverse where you would select a snippet of code. I remember that I felt like I had guessed on every one of them. In some cases, I was able to make an educated guess by ruling out the obvious. But many times a total guess. I spoke to an older kid after the test and expressed how difficult I thought the test was. He and a few others said they thought it was easy. I ended up winning first place. A university had put on that competition. That experience factored in a bit on my decision to not study computer science in college and go the economics/finance/business route instead. Even though I knew my path was likely tech.