During my second to last semester in college, I am taking my first programming course: Python. This is what I can do so far, among other things:

It’s been a process to understand the syntax of coding, but in Introduction to Computer Programming, we have moved through design, testing, implementing, testing and analysis of programs. From analysing data sets or processing images, I have gotten a grasp of what coding is.

I have been studying foreign languages throughout my life, but only in my gap year before Agnes Scott College did I think about other technical languages. I started by learning CSS and HTML to edit a travel blog website, but gave it up once I decided on an International Relations major.

This Python course has instead shown me that coding is not a one stop shop, but a way of learning, making and thinking with many applications. With the Google-created Runestone course, I have been able to pace mysefl through the work, and collaborate with team-members over Zoom to complete our project.

Already, I’ve elected to take the next level data science course for my final semester, and it opened my eyes to technology consulting for a future job possibility.