First Approach to Programming!

So everyone´s got a start at something, mine was through a Tech High School Class

On February 17 of 2020, being my first day of classes at my new High School I was also attending for the first time a technology class. After all the welcoming rituals all the different professors did that day, the class that at the time I didn't know was going to change my life, started.

The professor told us we were going to use a program called DFD, a program which my friends were familiarized with since they've been using it a long time ago, my professor asked me to sit down next to a classmate so she could explain how the program worked and what we had to do with it in the class. DFD stands for a data flow diagram and that was it, a program where using different shapes you could manage to do cycles, loops, basic operations with variables, and printing something. When my classmate explained it to me, it seemed easy for me because at the end there were just shapes with commands so my program would run with no errors. After the class ended I approached the professor and asked him if what we just did was programming and that I understood perfectly and would download the program to my computer so I could practice at my home and discover better what this programming with shapes was, and he answered that yes, that was programming but in an easy way and actually programmer would work with words instead of shapes and we would see real programming in the next classes. As I said, I got to my home and built a basic operations calculator program in the DFD app we used in class and proudest than ever showed it to my dad, who was proud as I was at the time. Even though the program looked like this.