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This is amazing! How did you get into coding? Can you tell us about your journey up to this point? I'm sure many people are interested to hear!
by stevofolife 5y ago
This is amazing! How did you get into coding? Can you tell us about your journey up to this point? I'm sure many people are interested to hear!
- varun_ch 5y agoThank you! Our school encouraged us to participate in Hour of Code back when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade. I was immediately hooked, and spent the afternoon in the public library checking out some activities on code.org. My parents checked out a guide for MIT App Inventor, and I created my first few coding projects there. Additionally, I discovered MIT's Scratch, and spent many years creating projects on there. I found that Scratch had Discussion Forums, and a section titled "Advanced Topics". Other kids were sharing websites that they made, and I wanted to fit in and be like them. I then spent a while asking questions and trying to make my own websites. Eventually I must have gotten bored because I didn't do much with websites for a couple years, and instead stuck to Scratch's editor. I picked back up HTML, et al. when I was bored during quarantine and, for some reason, this time it clicked. I created various JavaScript projects, and I've been working on increasingly more challenging projects. It's fun to set aside a few hours and just code something new. My goals for the future are to learn some more lower level languages (eg. Rust), and hopefully study hard to get into a nice university.