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Hardeep Kumar

People usually brush up like "nah bro you lying that's just flex" whenever i tell them how it all started. But anyways i don't care.

It all started when i was a kid amnd used computer for the first time. We went to the lab and were shown a computer, there was pain program open and were told to use it. It was fun but then i accidentally closed it and wanted to open it again so i used start menu and open command prompt thinking it's paint. There i saw it said to type "help" and so i did thinking it will open it up. (I've read many books of computer amd was very fascinated about them so i atleast knew some basics of how things work) Then i saw there various commands and i started to try each if em (thank goodness i didn't break anything lol) and then i reached tree command. I used it and first words that came were "wow". And that was the point when a spark was lit in me.

I know sounds dramatic and well scripted but ye that's truth. Accept it or not.

Now years later when i was in 11th standard, i tool cs subject and not physical education so that I'll get to use computers. 1 month into classes, purchased books and all, at home i was reading cs book for homework that we were given. Got bored and started to see what else was in there. Chapter no 6: programming with c++ 3rd page, example program: Hello world. I read code and said "interesting. So that's how it all works? ". In next 2 weeks, i cleared basics in my own while we were still on chapter 1 about input output devices and started to explore more with a new friend that i made who was already into computers.

And today, I'm a full stack developer (still a college student though) in Django, DRF + Nuxt. And my level of expertise in programming is way beyond that even all my professors combined can't compare. well that's exaggeration but truth is truth and 2 professors who I'm in good terms said that themselves.