High school
I wanted to program in grade 7 but I did not understand how deep and how big it was. Like I kind of knew but I did not and could not feel it. I did not believe it …
I did not understand that programming took time and I needed to start slow and at the bottom … It would take years and years from the start.
I realized back in grade 7, that in order to live a good life in Canada (The West), programming and technology was the way. You needed to learn and learn and grow indefinitely the Western way. Learn even if you don’t want to …
When I was in high school, I could not do functions, loops and recursion. I dropped out of grade 11 programming.
I did not have a clear goal.
I wanted to become a programmer but I did not have a solid idea what to program. I did not have a scope. I did not have an area of interest.
I wanted to program in industry. I wanted to try. But it seemed too hard and more harder as you went. It felt “negative” working long, long hours bit-by-bit.
I even thought of becoming a high school programming teacher maybe just to have the programming skill and to be established.