I'm a geek, always have been. My mom's a doctor, my dad's a software engineer, both my brothers are robotics nerds, and my parents decided to homeschool me. It's a lot of pressure to be taught by a family that is so talented, and I ended up leaning towards fiction-- novels, games, movies and stories. I absolutely love the sense of adventure and the unknown, and things like magic and super powers fascinate me.
But I can't really take things like super powers at face value. I like to think about how it works, what makes it tick. For example, how does Frozone from the incredibles create ice? He makes a comment about water vapor in the air, but how does he bring it's temperature low enough? Where does the heat go? The nitty gritty of the mechanics, the theory behind the practice, I have to know it and understand.
It wasn't long before I became fascinated with the way that computer games were made. I wanted to know how THEY ticked, and at 9 years old, my dad gave me a book on programming with python. It didn't take me long to start understanding the flow of code, objects in programming, and user interaction.
I took quite a few college credit classes in highschool and completed the majority of an associates of arts, but I found that the only software engineering classes that were available weren't enough, and I wanted to know more. My dad, who worked for pivotal, now VMware, told me about turing, a 6 month program for software developers, and that he had heard good things about it from both his own company and friends from other companies. I jumped at the chance, and moved to denver.
Now, I've just finished the program, and I want to see what I can do in the software engineering industry. I enjoy the atmosphere that I've seen in the companies in this field, and I enjoy the kind of work that comes with the territory. In the future, I want to grow my leadership skills, and learn to manage a team.