Anhar's Story

My passion is Programming.

When I was around 12 or 13, I thought hacking sounded so cool. So I literally Google searched everything from “how to become a hacker” to “how does hacking work?”. In the middle of my search, I realized that in order to be a good hacker you should be a good programmer! So my goal changed from wanting to become a hacker to being a programmer. Now I'm pretty sure you know where this is heading. I Googled “how to become a programmer” for hours. Now this time I found out there are different “computer languages” and each “computer language” is used for different things. For example, JavaScript is for making websites interactive while Java is for making games. When I was in 8th grade, I found this flyer titled “Girls Who Code”. I joined, and it ended up being pretty fun. It made me realize what true coding is. I became really excited to do this on my own so I asked for a laptop for my 14th birthday. Thankfully, I got it.

Currently, I'm trying to teach myself how to program and code. Unfortunately, I can't join Girls Who Code this year because of my tight schedule (JROTC, college track) so I don't have access to a real instructor anymore. I feel I learn best in a classroom environment so joining iD Tech Camp-SF Bay Area will help broaden my skills and be beneficial to my self learning. Sometimes when I'm trying to learn from the Internet I feel as though I'm missing the whole picture as to how programming really works. I'm also excited to meet other people with the same interest and learn from them!