Learn to code, he said!

Having been recently demoted at my place of employment, I decided to follow through on something I very much wanted to do before the demotion. 

 My first year out of high school was 1983, and I enrolled at the local Community College as a Computer Science Major. I had a great time learning COBOL, Fortran and Pascal, to add to the Basic that I had already taught myself after hours spent in the dark, damp basement of our home. 

But like many dreams, this one morphed into another dream which took me down the road of pursuing another passion by going to culinary school. 

 I've always loved the challenges of writing a fresh piece of code that makes a computer do something, show something or solve a problem. Over the years I've dabbled in Javascript and Excel VBA, and that was about the extent of my "programming". Then I saw an opportunity at the local Vo-Tech to take a class in Python. I did a bit of research and found that Python is a very powerful programming language, used by many large internet companies to achieve various tasks. 

 I was working for a large company at the Director level in Revenue Management and felt like this would be an awesome distraction to the daily grind, and would be something i could possibly incorporate into my work.   

Long story short, I lost my job when the company went through a COVID restructuring. My job went to a friend which was very hard, but now I have the time to actually learn something new without the 9-5 grind. 

 I had to laugh at President Biden telling the WV coal miners to just "learn how to code" as he took THEIR jobs away. Suddenly I felt a connection to thos e coal miners. 

 So, the Blog is simply an attempt to share my voyage as I "Learn To Code!. Hopefully the journey is interesting and if your interested, drop me a line and we can compare journeys. I'll be posting mostly code snippets and things I've learned. Hope it's not too boring.