Why am I into technology? That is such a difficult question. It is like trying to explain why I love who I love.
Doesn’t love just happen! I am not sure if anyone can exactly decipher why they fell in love. It is funny that I am now trying to reason it out with my head why my heart is where it is ….in technology and everything that runs on digital, programming, and the internet.
As a child, I remember playing around with smartphones, Ipads, television remotes, and laptops. At the age of four, my mother’s new laptop captured my photographs first as I was monkeying around with its features in her absence. Needless to say, she was furious when she knew what I was up to. My plain curiosity and intrigue with new technology soon transformed into something more concrete, when I saw elders in my family running to me with their phones at the age of 6 to fix their problems.
I was always up to date with the new applications and technology stuff and it felt really good to be able to help people with their digital problems. As a child seeing adults running to me also made me feel powerful!!
A more structured approach to learning technology happened in school when computer science became a part of my curriculum at the primary school level.
However, a new world opened for me in the 6th grade when I started learning QBasic and was introduced to programming for the first time. I found programming extremely involving and fun.
It was interesting to work out the logic, write a code, and then the exhilaration when the program ran successfully. Just as it was when dead phones used to spring into life in my hands after some manipulations and maneuvering.
We often complain in life that our efforts are not rewarded but here in the case of technology, you see your efforts bearing fruit if you have worked hard on it.
My interest in programming only continued to increase through learning Python and Java. The challenge of solving a problem through code is a heady one.
In fact, I found it so engaging that I enrolled in courses beyond my curriculum. It did not take me more than a minute to write a code in my 10th class and my teachers also became frustrated with finding newer problems that I could work on. They suggested that I experiment and learn beyond curriculum.
Coding fascinates me, thinking and writing numbers, strings that can make anything spring to life from airplanes, medical devices, and vehicles to humanoid robots. Technology is exciting and it is only going to improve. This is where I want to be. This is what I dream of for my future… To be the person that helps run multiple things.
Ironically it is logic that interests me about technology, but I am finding it difficult to explain through logic why I love technology. I hope I have been able to put my head around to explain where my heart is.
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