Choosing A Path
It was a line of jargon I could not understand. A few words of English mixed in with symbols, typed in some kind of structured writing. An electronic form of poetry in an alien language I thought. With a few inputs into a black screen they call the command prompt, man and machine converse. My friend, a programmer since high school and now working with embedded code for a large tech company, showed me the wonder that is programming. I didn't say so, but it piqued my interest begging the question: how does it work? Witnessing some simple code, that crunched numbers and asked the computer to open and close it's CD drive, pulled at me. I never really cared to learn before, but now that I have chosen to learn and make a career out of it, I will never look back. The world of computer science is as astonishing as it is complex. Before I decided to take the dive into learning the field, I dove into the treasure trove of information that is known as the Internet. I just wanted to...