I came from having prior experience with other programming languages so I was able to smoothly move through the labs. This caused me to feel a bit over confident when it came time for the CLI project. I came upon the project page, read through the project requirements, opened a fresh IDE and stared blankly at it. A sudden realisation hit. I wasn’t sure how to actually start my project.
Being born with a heart defect helped put me on the path towards a career in Software Engineering. As a child, I was homebound more than others and unable to play most sports. This caused me to spend a lot of time on computers and gave a love for computers. At this point, I learned that I really would love to be able to create and work on projects that will benefit others or even society as a whole. Along the years, I would spend a lot of time doing various little tricks and coding snip-its but I would typically fall flat when the programs got too complex.