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
