My First Steps into Technology

As with many others, my introduction to technology was at a young age. I remember seeing my first computer in grade school, sitting in class, watching the teacher enter data. Once getting to sit at the keyboard, getting to play Reader Rabbit and Super Solvers: Gizmos and Gadgets!, I was hooked. I always wanted to be close to the computer.

Fast forward to the MySpace era, and almost everyone I knew was learning basic HTML and CSS to add personalization to their pages. We all had songs, background images, even some going as far as adding the worst animations that I can remember. During this time, my enthusiasm for computers never waivered it was just redirected to gaming. As I got older, that hobbiest mentality lead me to wanting to learn more, thinking that networking may align more with the way my mind functioned. I learned very quickly that the logical foundation of programming was what I was looking for, but not the focus in networking logic. I wanted to build applications, websites, and be able to do so from scratch.

Utilizing my miltary benefits, I chose to pursue a path that would allow me to learn to be a full stack developer, which at the time I was not even sure what the role fully entailed. In the VetTech Program, I found that I could use my benefits to enroll in a bootcamp that taught me the correct way to learn to be a developer. The bootcamp taught React.js, ASP.Net, .Net Core, SQL, how to think programmatically, and to read documentation. While attending the bootcamp, I got to work with an amazing group of developers on a Minimum Viable Product for an interesting startup.