Learning's Curve

By the end of my sophomore year at Rivers, I was recommended to take the introductory computer science course with Mr. Schlenker. I had long been interested  in games and computers, so I decided to give it a shot. Although mostly unaware of what the course entailed, I found myself quickly gripped by it.  Each new unit expanded what I could do, and the growth in difficulty of the different challenges I encountered was rewarding. What started as simple problem solving and synta

Before my time at Rivers, I had limited knowledge about anything computer science-related. I always found computers cool and loved to play video games, but I never thought I would actually be able to do any kind of coding on my own. That changed going into my sophomore year, when I took a Financial Technologies course at Bentley University, and I was first introduced to the coding language Python. The course consisted of learning to analyze the market and economy using code a