My Journey So Far: Three Years as a Software Developer
Early Curiosity: Video Games and First Lines of Code Born and raised in what is now North Macedonia, my story isn’t unique — like many kids, I played video games. Wanting to make my own games led me to search online for “how to make a video game,” and that’s how I discovered programming. I tried following tutorials on W3Schools and Codecademy, but it wasn’t until high school that I really dove in. During my first year, we started learning C++, and nearly a decade later, I still have some of that early code — messy as it was, it sparked a lifelong curiosity. ...