When I was younger, I had a bit of artistic talent and so when my guidance counselor called me on the phone in the summer of 1996 and suggested I take a Pastel class to fulfill an elective my Junior year of H.S. (1996), I didn't think much of it and agreed, figured it'd be an easy A. Given I was loaded up on AP and Honors courses already, the thought of a less challenging class was an easy sell for me. Fast forward a few months later, when I walked into class the first day, the teacher started talking about computers and programming languages and I was utterly confused, but I didn't say anything, because I also was extremely inthralled. Finally she writes on the board the word "Pascal" and I quickly realized I totally misunderstood what my guidance counselor had suggested over the phone. But after that first class I was hooked on the idea of being able to control computers using programming languages and was inspired to pursue a degree in Computer Science when I got to college.
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When I was younger, I had a bit of artistic talent and so when my guidance counselor called me on the phone in the summer of 1996 and suggested I take a Pastel class to fulfill an elective my Junior year of H.S. (1996), I didn't think much of it and agreed, figured it'd be an easy A. Given I was loaded up on AP and Honors courses already, the thought of a less challenging class was an easy sell for me. Fast forward a few months later, when I walked into class the first day, the teacher started talking about computers and programming languages and I was utterly confused, but I didn't say anything, because I also was extremely inthralled. Finally she writes on the board the word "Pascal" and I quickly realized I totally misunderstood what my guidance counselor had suggested over the phone. But after that first class I was hooked on the idea of being able to control computers using programming languages and was inspired to pursue a degree in Computer Science when I got to college.