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Found my calling in programming.Growing up, I had relatively few passions in life. After I graduated High School, I did not know what I wanted to do for a career. Having an appreciation for nature, I enrolled at Vincennes University to study horticulture. I enjoyed my time at Vincennes and learning about plants, especially plant propagation. After graduating with an Associates Degree, I ventured to find work in my field. As this was during the recovery, finding work was difficult. At this time, I began using Linux on a laptop that I received from my sister. This began my love for open-source software and showed my that computers could be useful instead of as a headache where the operating system broke every five minutes. I soon began to teach myself how to program in Python through books. I grew to love solving problems and learning new programming techniques. My computer broke during this time and when I fixed it, I had lost my skills to where I did not continue with Python and I began a job that left me without much time to learn.During my time working that job, I spent countless unfulfilling nights and I decided I wanted to better my life by pursuing a Bachelor of Science in computer science as I remembered how much fun I had in solving problems while learning to code in Python. I l also had another motivation which was that I wanted to learn how to create a program that implemented a cipher algorithm that I created when I was in the fifth grade. As a child, I loved to read books about spies and secret codes so I developed my own and I had always wanted my own computer program because it took me too long to do it by hand. This was also part of my motivation for learning Python. After making it halfway through Intro to Computer Science II, I finally had enough knowledge to implement my cipher algorithm. Some people are born knowing what they want to do with their life and some people need time to discover what their life's calling is. I happen to fall in the latter group but I want to make up for lost time by using my passion and knowledge to develop efficient programs. I have a great passion for learning new programming concepts and paradigms and wish to apply that passion in my career.My skills include being able to adapt and learn quickly as well as problem solving. I have learned several languages including: Java, C, C++, C# as well as web technologies which include: HTML, CSS, Angular and Typescript. Currently, I am learning to write video games in Unity so that I can publish a game to earn passive income.

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  Purdue University Fort Wayne

  Computer Science