Memoir Assignment

Everyone has those things that they like doing. Something that i enjoy doing a lot is coding. It is something that i starting doing because it was something that i was somewhat interested in. I was one to usually not be interested in a lot of things. This topic had interested me enough in that i decided to try it. It eventually because something that i enjoy learning about a lot. Eventually it helped me find something that i thoroughly enjoy doing and helped me become open to other things. I always found the idea of coding fascinating. Making something out of nothing but words. I find coding important to me because i’m usually not one to find something that i like to do a lot. Yeah cooking and some sports is good but sometimes i feel like i’m just doing that to just do that. With coding i always enjoy it. I have always been a person that could rarely find something that i constantly enjoy and so was often left unamused at many things. I’ve known about coding before but just never thought anything of it. Then when i was 12 i heard more about the programming tools like Java and coding and decided to try something with it since i didn’t have anything else and i was curious about it. I looked up some basic coding tutorials for new people. Once i knew enough i decided to try to make a simple “hello” screen. A screen that would show a hello screen appearing and disappearing. It didn’t work, yet unlike many things, i found it interesting and didn't want to stop learning about it. I was intrigued by it and wanted to see if i could make something using it. One of my friends knew of a few people that know a lot about coding and programming. I started to talk with them and started to learn more about programming. They weren’t that much older than, the eldest i think being only three years older, so it was easy for us to talk with each other. I learned more about various programming languages, mostly Java and C--. I learned the majority of syntax and semantics of those programming languages. I became well informed on how to better make more efficient scripts. I realized how much i didn’t know and more importantly, how interesting it was. After a while i eventually became a lot better at understanding Java. Eventually i decided to try making the “hello” screen again. This time i was surprised that it actually worked. When i finished putting in the scripts i decided to test it. At first it showed up as a black screen before a simple Hello screen appeared and disappeared three times in different moving sizes against different colored backgrounds. I was a bit astonished since I had gotten it to work this time. I then decided to try a different idea, a simple ball bouncing up and down against the screen. I used what i knew to write scripts that would show red ball moving up and down and forward against a simple colored screen. When it worked i was happy because i really did enjoy learning about programming. I was happy that i made that happen, not someone else, but i did it. I’m still nowhere near good, but i am learning and it’s something i don’t intend to stop. I find coding to be something very significant for me because it was one of the first things that thoroughly enchanted me, it was something that i didn’t want to stop even after the first few failed attempts. This eventually got me to start doing some other stuff that i somewhat enjoy, like some sports and cooking, although not as much as coding. It helped me start to get a more open mind with doing things. It helped me find something that i really am fond of learning about.