Becoming a software engineer
Recently I realized that a professional career started for me twenty years ago. However the journey of becoming a software engineer begins much earlier, and the first sparkle of interest wasn’t created by a computer itself.
When I was about 9 years old, my parents bought me a book1 about a boy who got inside of a computer. The boy helped people living there to catch a computer virus and found many friends there. It was an amazing adventure for the little boy and me. The book wasn’t an ordinary one. It had two parts: one is the story itself, and another one is a glossary with all “computer terms” mentioned in the story. The glossary wasn’t that boring list of terms with explanations either. It was a comic! Every term there was a short story in a comic style.
The book became something special for me. I was going through the glossary part over and over again, enjoying every detail. Seeing that, my parents got me an extension to the book. It was a computer encyclopedia for kids. Basically, it was the glossary part extended with other terms (comics!), math puzzles, and little games.
