I have had an interest in computers as far back as preschool, when my family had an old Texas Instruments computer that looked more like a video game system, but it did allow you to write programs using TI-Basic (a language based mostly on line numbers and goto statements). Although I never learned to do much but teach it to count and display words because I was so young, I did have a strong interest in learning about it. This interest continued to grow when my family purchased our first computer with a floppy disk drive and DOS operating system. As we moved on up through the operating systems as they came, I was soon the first person in my family to move into the Windows 95 era when I got my own computer for the first time. The start of my experiences in programming began while I was in high school with Visual Basic, JavaScript, and HTML. By the time I graduated and started college, I knew that computer science was without question the major I wanted.