During my younger years, I was raised in a home where we were taught to work and to work well. If we were going to do something, we were going to do it well. If I didn't do it according to my parents (mainly my mother's) standards, we were going to do it again. I have taken that skill with me for the rest of my life. Even when I don't want to do something, I can't let myself leave it if it's not good enough.

We were also encouraged to learn, explore, and be creative. As I grew, I developed those skills, as I learned to unicycle, solve Rubik's Cubes, and then to programming and web development.

I was homeschooled for most of my years of schooling, which allow me to focus on the field I wanted to go into sooner in life.

During the last year of middle school, I my online class was doing an online career fair. I had no idea which section I wanted to do, so I just decided to go to the one that my favorite teacher was leading. It happened to be the coding section, and they had us go to Khan Academy to do the Hour of Code. And that is where my love for coding was born. My love for it has only grown since.

In Longview, Washington, Lower Columbia College has a program called Running Start. It has two levels, one is concurrent enrollment, which is very popular with colleges; and the second level is where you can go full-time to the college, and if you graduate with one of their degrees, you will get a state diploma (Highschool equivalent). So during my schooling there, all I had to do was satisfy the requirements of their Computer Science Associate's Degree, instead of working around all the requirement highschools have.

In my classes here, I was able to expand my programming knowledge. I learned from basic to intermediate C++ skill, learn basic Java programming elements, and learned aspects of Object Oriented Programming.

After graduating from LCC, I transferred to BYU-Idaho. I decided that their Software Engineering degree would give me the largest variety of skills learned as well as the ability to focus in on Web Development, which was what I was leaning towards.

During my time at BYU-Idaho, I learned a decent amount of building mobile apps, developing websites and webapps (frontend and backend), game design, software engineering, version control, CMS concepts, Node.js, PHP, and more

Through my classes I chose, I was able to obtain two certificates: Web Development and Computer Programming. In the following tables, I'll list the classes and what tech skills I learned from them.

Since then, I've been continually learning the new best practices as languages and technologies update and improve.

I started a Career Path on Codecademy, their "Front End Engineer" course. At the end of it, I will receive a professional certificate. This will allow me to hone my skills, gain new knowledge, and update my practices to the current best practice for the new code techniques.