Shortly after taking this role on, I saw a great need to make my curriculum accessible to students with social and performance anxieties. A college friend who studied software engineering recommended that I try my hand at making interactive worksheets and exercises for the students who were struggling in the classroom setting.

I decided to give it a shot. Over a few months I started to learn the basics of OOP and Ruby. I created a simple Rails app that could store resulsts and used jQuery to handle transitions to make the content engaging.

Lo and behold, I realized that not only did I have a knack for this stuff but I also really enjoyed it! I was eager to work on new projects, collaborate with others, and continue to build off of a foundation that I had created.

Over the next few years, I continued to teach and in my freetime I would study web development to expand my knowledge with JavaScript, Ruby, Java. Until one day when I decided it was time to switch gears and make web-development my career.