During my senior year of high school all the seniors were asked to submit a quote to be included next to our picture in the year book. Up until the due date I had narrowed it down to two. I don't remember the one I ended up picking, but I did notice that it was on the big marque right as you come in the main doors of the school. (A fact that I did not know until after I submitted my senior quote.)
To this day I still remember the quote that I didn't pick:
"It is good to have and end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matter in the end."
This quote has really helped me to keep things in perspective throughout my life, trying to enjoy the journey and not just hope and wish to get to the end.
This blog is a record of my journey along the pathway of learning to program in C++. I took programming classes in college, but I just endured to the end of class rather than take the time to really learn and understand what was being taught. Now I find myself programming for a living and I have really grown to love it. I look back to my college wishing I had paid more attention to what was being taught in those programming classes that I took.
Now if I find myself wishing I had a little program to perform a task to make my day easier, I'll write one. Sometimes I won't stop thinking about it until I have it up and running, and sometimes after that I think of all the new and better features I want to add.
Right now I am taking a fundamentals of computer programming class for some formal training on how to program. I'm hoping by taking this class and others that I will gain the knowledge and skills I need to accomplish any programming project that I can think up.
My goal is to write two posts a week about what I am learning in my class. Each post will be like a checkpoint along my journey, and even though my end goal is to become a better programmer, I am enjoying each little step along the way.
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