I studied philosophy in grad school at CU, Boulder. I left teaching to learn web development and programming, hoping to solve bigger social problems and have a high impact. You can read all about code for good at www.80000hours.org

I got my start online at Treehouse and Code School, as well as in Code Fellows Foundations programs. I also read everything recommended by CSS Tricks and Jessica Hische.

The best feeling when programming is finally making a break through. The site/function just wasn't doing what you wanted, and you tried a million things, and then you finally catch the bug or typo, or find that new technology or snippet, and when you fire up the page the console is totally red-x-free.