Nice story. Thank you share. For years, I struggled with the idea of "message passing" for GUIs. Later, I learned it was nothing more than the window procedure (WNDPROC) in the Win32 API. <sad face>

    > However I wasn't sure how to improve further without help, so my mom found me an IT school.

This sounds interesting. What is an "IT school"? (What country? They didn't have these in mine.)