Answer these questions to reflect on your learning experiences.
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What brought you to Turing? I had been teaching for 14 years and was burned out, looking for an alternative. While at my last school I heard about Turing from another teacher who'se significant other was a grad and working programmer. I went to a "Try Coding" event and was instantly hooked! Having been heavily "into" computers for many, many years it was a perfectly natural fit. A new challenge, an industry with an emphasis on a work/life balance, problem-solving, possibility to work while traveling, and compensation all just added to the glaring simplicity of the decision.
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Where do you see yourself after Turing? I'd simply like to work for a company doing something noble, even moderately so - retreating from blatantly capitalistic organizations. Examples: ethics, social welfare, education, health, science, energy.
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From concepts taught in class or your personal learning, what technical concepts do you enjoy exploring most? Repeatability of code, testing, and run-time optimization. Also code elegance and beauty!
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What technical concepts do you enjoy exploring least? Formatting of output, CSS, visuals.
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What technical challenges are the most fun for you to solve? Finding the right enumerable, debugging, optimizing.