During my freshman and sophomore years, I took two computer science courses, CS 1 and CS 2, and saved my projects on GitHub, a website where programmers store and share their code. In CS 1, I learned the basics of Python, a popular programming language, by building simple programs like a Magic 8-Ball, a Rock-Paper-Scissors game, and a password-storage tool. In CS 2, I took on bigger projects, including versions of Hangman, Tic-Tac-Toe, and Battleship. I also wrote programs that read information from files and reorganized messy data into neat, spreadsheet-style tables. I'm now proficient in Python and know parts of two other languages, C++ and JavaScript. This year, I'm using these skills in Advanced Applied Data Science, a class that combines coding with statistics to find patterns in real-world data. The class has also made me proficient in Excel, which I use to organize and analyze information.