My first line of code was not part of a grand plan. It was a small Processing exercise in February 2025, written while I was still trying to understand what a variable really was.
What caught me was not the result on the screen. It was the feeling that I could describe a rule, run it, and immediately see where my thinking was wrong. That feedback loop made programming feel less like a school subject and more like a craft I wanted to get better at.
Since then, the questions have grown from loops and simple calculators to databases, REST APIs, authentication, testing, React, and deployment. The tools changed quickly; the curiosity did not.
This portfolio is a record of that process—including the parts that took several attempts before they finally made sense.