I was immediately hooked, and spent the afternoon in the public library checking out some activities on code.org. My parents checked out a guide for MIT App Inventor, and I created my first few coding projects there.

Additionally, I discovered MIT's Scratch, and spent many years creating projects on there.

I found that Scratch had Discussion Forums, and a section titled "Advanced Topics". Other kids were sharing websites that they made, and I wanted to fit in and be like them. I then spent a while asking questions and trying to make my own websites. Eventually I must have gotten bored because I didn't do much with websites for a couple years, and instead stuck to Scratch's editor.

I picked back up HTML, et al. when I was bored during quarantine and, for some reason, this time it clicked. I created various JavaScript projects, and I've been working on increasingly more challenging projects. It's fun to set aside a few hours and just code something new.

My goals for the future are to learn some more lower level languages (eg. Rust), and hopefully study hard to get into a nice university.