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by jester5 5257 days ago
Honestly, I just wanted to see what the hype was all about, then see if I could do it. I got a C++ book from a friend and initially looking at the book I ran the other direction. I was in my second year in college then. Then about my third yr in college I decided I would go for change my degree from CIS to B.S Software Engineering. Really to see if I could do it at first, I thought if I could this would streamline me into project management or something of that nature since I wanted to be in tech but not a dev.. Well after taking a few courses in C, javascript, I took Java and I sucked at it at first. Then something weird happen in my Advanced Java 2 class, I got code high one day.(I was working on a calculation project). This lead to a ever-ending search for that feeling over and over again... So I ended up taking the rest of my OO classes including VB and C++ and I decided code high was the coolest thing in the world.. So I decided I would pursue "code high" as career which is dev.. Now I code for a living and I am addicted to dev and sys stuff... I'm that which I said I would never be!! Honestly I just love building things and breaking things...and building them again.