When I was young, I wanted to become a programmer. I watched movies and saw people writing code, creating software and building systems. Something about it caught my imagination. I told my parents what I wanted to do.
They understood that I wanted to learn about computers. With the best intentions, they took me to a place where I was taught about computer parts, the desktop, the hard drive and how to use a computer. But that was not what I had been trying to explain.
I wanted to learn how software worked. I wanted to understand how systems were created and how I could build them myself. I had the interest, but I did not know how to translate that interest into a learning path—and the adults around me did not have that map either.
That experience has stayed with me. Because there are students today who want to build an app, design a game, create animations, develop websites, explore AI or make something they have only seen in their imagination. They may know what excites them long before they know what to study, which tools to use or who can guide them.