![]() So totally different, but… When I look back, I don’t regret it at all. Silly me, thinking l needed to go to college, I needed to do something that was practical, so with the encouragement of my parents, I went and did something very practical… And not to say computer science was unpractical, but it was something more conventional, which was at the time finance. ![]() No, so after all of that experience in high school, kind of messing around, trying to learn web development and graphic design and web design, funnily enough, after that experience I thought to myself – because I was growing up in Singapore at the time, and I think our community, we weren’t really very aware of the dotcom boom, and things like that… I wasn’t aware at least, so it never occurred to me that I could actually make a living doing web development. And there wasn’t quite the same level of tooling available, but it was definitely really fun to learn web development back then… When you can actually click a website, View Source, and you can see – maybe not everything, but you can see some of the HTML, the CSS, some of the JavaScript even… That was super-fun and helpful in learning. I spent a lot of time on that forum, on IRC, chatting with lots of people… We thought we were really cool, making silly memes, and funny internet jokes at the time… But it was a really great experience, because despite this being so many years ago, I had a wealth of information and tutorials that I could look up. ![]() When I was 13 or so - I don’t remember exactly how old I was, but my stepdad handed me this pirated copy of what was then known as the Macromedia Fireworks now it’s Adobe Fireworks, but back then it was Macromedia…Īt first, I was like “I have no idea what this software is.” But I messed around a bit, it seemed like a really advanced Microsoft Paint, and so I started just learning and googling for tutorials… And I stumbled upon a web forum a while back, that had a form for people who were interested in design, and web design… And that was actually my entry point into web development and design. My path into programming was actually from the design perspective. ![]() So with programming, it started in a pretty unusual way, I think, because I didn’t start programming right off the bat. ![]()
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