1. Why are you interested in programming? What have you done to expose yourself to programming so far?
My entrée into programming occurred on my path to graduation from Stanford – the bastion of Computer Science where companies like Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Yahoo!, Google and SnapChat came into existence. Though I was surrounded by these greats, my interests lay elsewhere. I was focused on business and Marketing particularly in the Entertainment world. These were different skill sets I needed to develop – I majored in Psychology and Communication to determine what made people want to buy things and what were the best ways to reach them. I focused on Networking which I did by traveling to LA on my Spring Break talking to Stanford Alumni who were professionals in the Entertainment world like the Senior Vice President of Programming for ABC.
Along the way, I took a computer course entitled Intro to Computer Science. In this course, I wrote programs which rarely worked and it was difficult to find the reason