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Why i started.

i started learning coding and programming because i wanted to build a career doing something i genuinely enjoy. i've always been interested in how websites, games, and software are made and i thought it would be pretty cool to learn how to create them myself. The more i learned, the more i realised that programming isn't just about writing code it's about problem solving, finding issues with your lines of code, being creative and turning ideas you might have into something beneficial that other people may use.

One of my biggest goals is to become a developer who creates websites, games and other software for people. i like the idea of helping people bring their ideas to life while improving my own skills with every project i work on. Every new challenge teaches me something different and that's the main reason i enjoy coding and trying to help people so much.

in the future, i would love to build a name for myself in the development community. i look up to the big game studios and software companies because they have created projects that people all over the world enjoy. i know that reaching that level takes time, hard work and a lot of practice, but that is what motivates me to keep learning and improving. My goal is to create projects that people enjoy using, make a positive impact and build a career that i'm proud of.

I would also really like to do all of this to provide for my family and live a life where i know ive done something to impact people

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The games that inspire me.

i grew up playing Ubisoft games, Assassin's Creed mainly, and i used to just play them like any other kid, never really thinking about how any of it actually worked.

it wasnt until i started learning to code myself that i went back and thought about how insane it is that an entire city like that, with hundreds of npcs walking around doing their own thing, is just code someone wrote line by line.

same thing happened with Rockstar games, i replayed GTA V last year after learning a bit of programming and kept getting distracted thinking about how they even handle that many systems running at once without the whole thing breaking. it changes how you see stuff once you know even a little bit about whats going on underneath.

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The software that inspires me.

its not just games either, i use Spotify pretty much every day and at some point i stopped just listening and started noticing things, like how the daily mixes actually know what i want to hear half the time, or how it never really lags even when everyone i know is using it at the same time.

same with Discord, im in like 6 different servers and i never really think about the fact that all of that, the voice calls, the messages, the random gifs people send at 2am, is running through code that someone had to actually build and keep from falling over.

i dont expect to work at any of these places any time soon, im still learning the basics honestly, but they kind of stick in my head as a "this is what im working towards" thing. like when im stuck on some small bug for way longer than it should take me, i think about how even the people at these companies were beginners once, they didnt just start out knowing how to build a game engine or a music app that millions of people use. they got there the same way anyone does, messing stuff up, fixing it, and doing that over and over.

so yeah thats basically it, those are the kind of things that make me want to actually get good at this instead of just okay. doesnt matter if it ends up being games or apps or whatever i end up building, i just want it to be something people actually use and like the way i use and like the stuff these companies have made.

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