My Developer Origin Story

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The year was 2013. I was attending secondary school. We were learning a formula to solve math problems. It caused a lot of suffering. The formula was long and complex. One little mistake and everything would be wrong.

Eventually, our teacher said there was an easier way. She explained that we could create a program on the calculator that executes the formula. Instead of doing everything manually, we could start the…