Thanks to @Replit,
I'm now a school celebrity.

postbulletin.com/news/local/a-rochester-wiz-kid-at-15-hes-already-been-coding-for-years

Here's my journey 🧵👇

Ever since I was young, I've been intrigued by the world of computers and how you can seemingly do an infinite amount of things on a literal piece of metal and wires.

My dad was my biggest inspiration in this since he was in the IT field, and that's how I came to know about the world of programming.

My journey begins in Scratch, a block-based coding platform. I pushed the site to its limits, creating stuff which to this day confuses me.

This was when I discovered @Replit. As a complete newbie to coding, it's where I started writing my first lines of code (HTML and CSS)

It was amazing for me because it took away all the complexities of coding (hosting, packages, etc) and just gave me an IDE to tinker with code

And there began my coding journey, a journey which has been amazing for me.

I began posting my mini projects on the Replit community page, and while most tanked, some BLEW up... like my game swordbattle.io which went viral. (it was initially made in a week!)

Now many people ask me- how do you figure out this stuff?

Here's my 4 step process:
0. Code Doesn't Work
1. Google It
2. Copy the fix, but LEARN why it works
3. Next time you'll know how to fix that specific issue 4. Code for hours on end, gaining experience (and stress)

While this is an amazing accomplishment for me, I'm not stopping here.
Infact, this is just the beginning.

I have many more ambitions and ideas under my sleeve.

and as the saying goes:
"the best way to predict the future is to code it"

- Gautam