My love of computers began at a very young age. I have faint memories of visitng family aquintances and being exposed to C64 frogger, pong. Apple II Taipan.
In the late 80's I managed to pester my parents into buying me a second hand IBM XT compatible PC. I didn't know it at the time or not even sure if it is true, but editing and hacking game config files and system settings were my first forays into code.
Throughout my childhood and working life my curiosity and interest with all computers have to offer has not waned.
It is suprising to me that I never dived into coding up until recently. The percpition that knowing how to code required extensive advanced mathimatical knowledge seems absurd now that I have spent the last year diving into learning software development.
I feel I am finally making steady progress after initially floundering in tutorial mode. I am starting to strikeout and working on using code to solve work related problems and using my nascent coding skills to attempt personal projects.
The code is far from elegant or even effective, but I am making steady progress learning and reinforcing key concepts at every mistep and refactor.