Shortly after I began driving my uncle taught me drive stick. We went out a few times, I'd practice in the parking lot, and I was eventually able to get it in g

Shortly after I began driving my uncle taught me drive stick. We went out a few times, I'd practice in the parking lot, and I was eventually able to get it in gear and drive on the streets. I was horrible at driving stick, stalling at intersections, but I was good enough at it to get by. It wasn't until I actually bought a car that had a manual transmission that I got good at driving stick. I was terrible because I was trying to learn to use the tool (stick shift) for the sake of learning. I learned to program in a completely utilitarian way. I had a problem that I needed to solve, I knew others had used programming to solve similar problems, so I learned only what I needed to know to solve the problem at hand. After using it this one time I began to notice all sorts of other problems around me that could be solved using programming. I developed my passion for coding because I understood it was a tool that could make my life easier.