“I inherited both my father’s looks and his passion for technology. As a child, I spent hours watching him assemble and disassemble computer components. This was far more enjoyable for me than playing with dolls.
I can’t pinpoint when I lost my interest in programming. As I grew up and spent more time with friends, my connection with computers faded. In high school, I focused on learning languages like English, French, Italian, and Latin. I also enjoyed math. By the end of high school, I began questioning what I truly wanted to do with my life.
Sometimes, I lacked direction. Then, it hit me – why not combine my interests and study programming in college?
Later, as it turned out, thanks to some of my extraordinary college professors at FINKI, everything came to a place. Their unforgettable lectures taught me the languages which are used to write programs, complete and functional sets of instructions that computers use to accomplish tasks, like loading a web page, generating statistical analyses, and finding the sum of two numbers.
I strongly believe that the paths that people take to get into programming are much more varied than stereotypes give credit for, and I think it’s useful to see that there are many possible paths to programming. And becoming a programmer is not something you can learn by merely attending faculty classes. Even if you have a Computer Science degree, you still have to be passionate about programming, practice, read books, watch presentations, try different languages, read code, write code, etc. This complements perfectly with my hobby of reading books and watching movies. In that manner, I am never tired to dive into books and gaze in presentations.
And for the end I will quote Ada Lovelace: “Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able to fully appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.”
