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David Taitingfong

I'd like to think my journey officially began in high school. I took a Comp Sci class, coded in Java, and realized how useful it was. I strayed away from it for a while (like 6 years) and my passion reemerged during my last year in the military. I got out and went back to school, and I'm about 2 years out from getting my Bachelor's. If I could go back I'd definitely continue coding while I was in the military - there were so many tasks I could've automated with some simple scripts (my job was mostly computer-based).

I've got about 3 years experience; first language was Java. Currently my favorite language is Python - I find it extremely useful for many situations and particularly easy to use...I use it sometimes to solve math equations, haha.