Intro thread

[alexbayleaf]

Ooh, starting to get members, awesome!

I thought it might be good to do a quick intro thread. Let's do it like this:

Name: (DW and/or otherwise)
Where are you: (country etc)
What do you grow?
Why are you interested in this project?

Comments

[algeh]

Yeah. I'm hoping a combination of being a bit more grown-up now (I started graduate school a few months after turning 21 because I skipped my senior year of high school and have a May birthday) and being in a more supportive and diverse environment can help me re-find the things I used to enjoy about programming. (When meeting with one of my professors to go over my disability accommodations in grad school, he pretty much waved it off with "I'm not so into this 'teaching' thing". That's pretty much when I realized I was never going to be happy there, although I also think I just wasn't interested enough in my chosen subfield, which was HCI, once I got to know it better.)

I enjoyed teaching programming to middle school students (ages roughly 11-14) when I had a job doing that for a year, so I know I can enjoy some parts of it. I think I enjoy teaching others how to do things more than I enjoy doing them myself, which may lead me to drift into documentation (or later, user support) rather than programming, although I'll give it a try.