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That could not be more true. I went to a high school that didn't offer any programming or CS courses, and I didn't even know what coding was until I bought mys
by habosa 13y ago
That could not be more true. I went to a high school that didn't offer any programming or CS courses, and I didn't even know what coding was until I bought myself a Java book on a whim the summer after my senior year of HS.
At college I started as a Bioengineering major, because I really wanted to make medical devices. I took a CS class in the Spring of my Freshman year and realized that it "clicked" for me and I could go forward with it.
I am now graduating as a Bioengineering and Computer Science dual major and moving to a full time software engineering job at Google next year. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn something entirely new, and I worked my ass off to catch up with the kids who had been coding since they were 12. I don't think that I'm an impostor in the world of CS and I have the additional perspective of not always having known that this is what I want to do.