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Scott Harvey-Whittle
Scott Harvey-Whittle

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What a life Changer!!!

This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Retro’ing and Debugging 2024.

A Life Changer

Well at the end of 2023, I was pretty much living my life as a couch bum. Not doing anything with my life and taking narcotics.

Wow what a change I have made since then

Here's Why

I applied to The Open University to study the BSc (Honours) degree Computing and IT.

As well as the other stuff like learning the history of computing and IT style Mathematics. The main programming language I am currently learning (do we ever stop learning in programming languages) the language of Python.

I remember the first program I wrote in Python:

from turtle import *
square = for sides in range(0,5):
    forward 100
    right(90)
print(square)
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Well 2024 has been a little tough with struggling with university coursework and also not forgetting addictions but Every day I feel that I am bettering myself so I can get a job at the end of it as a developer.

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