I learned C++ two years ago, in my freshman year of high school, and it changed my life. I decided to teach other girls the same skills.
By Christina Li
When I was in third grade, my brothers and I created a neon blue website in HTML, full of flashy rainbow animations, slow-loading pictures of our favorite things, and Comic Sans bold titles.
It was basically every web developer’s worst nightmare. But to me, it was the start of my journey into computer science and its amazing possibilities.
Since learning C++ in my freshman year of high school two years ago, my pursuit of technological knowledge had taken me to places I never would’ve thought possible. I participated in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics world championships in St. Louis as a student programmer. I was able to enter the halls of Stanford University, thanks to a full-ride scholarship from the Joyce Ivy Foundation, and learned Java and MATLAB as a summer college student. I dozed off in a sleeping bag at a tech incubator in San Francisco, while developing a web app to translate sign language to text during a hackathon. It was definitely an improvement from the website I built once upon a time.
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