Learning to code

The Creator Void: My Journey from Machines to Code I have always had an inner urge from my childhood; I have been a curious kid from early. I vividly remember figuring things out on my own—how phones work, how machines are built. Every opportunity to disassemble a machine was a golden chance. I questioned things, I tried things, and I failed at many, of course. But importantly, I learned how things work, and that has always been a life thread for me. I think of myself as intellectually thirsty, with a "creator void" inside me. I’m not satisfied with mere attainments. However, there have been sidetracks and "sideshows," as my dad would call them, that have kept me from reaching the ultimate version of me—but today, that would not be our topic. The Barrier of the "Qualified IT Guy" Growing up in my teens, my passion with gadgets did not diminish but became augmented. I started opening up CPUs, disassembling the CMOS and the hard drives, reassembling them, and installing operating systems