I have always wanted to write computer code but throughout my life I have had little opportunity to actually do it. When I was 15 I got my first ZX Spectrum computer and my favourite cousin and I used to spend hours and hours following coding guides in the Spectrum magazine to write small games. The first game we write was 'The Price is Right' game !
Later in life I found myself embedded in the Hackintosh scene and iphone jailbreaks and whilst I loved the hacking and and the manipulation of these operating systems I wasn't actually coding anything from scratch! From time to time to I would peek at a few python tutorials online but never really could get past the first few lines of code and would loose interest pretty quickly. Fast forward to 2023 where I am studying part time at University in a cyber security course and low and behold I need to learn Python ! In f act there is a whole unit on Python so now I really do need to learn some programming.
My first assignment in the programming unit was to design and code a very basic password manager for a fictitious client. No encryption was required, this was out first basic assignment and I was quite worried because the lectures were coming thick and fast and we were kind of expected to just go and do it ! So I did. I wrote my first very basic Python script and uploaded it to GitHub, you can take a look if you like:
It's a super basic script and is my first attempt at coding :) Now I have the bug and I am fully intending to spend more time writing python scripts.