In many ways, my decision to learn to code would be no surprise at all l to those who knew a younger version of me. I was fascinated by computers from quite a young age, and wanted to be a programmer when I grew up. I would read the manuals for my parents’ 1980s PC clone and check out books from the public library on BASIC and input programs into our computer. We got Internet access early on (1996) and I spent hours surfing the Web. But later on, my interests turned to the humanities, subjects like anthropology, history, and eventually religious studies. Religion was the focus of my undergraduate and graduate studies and I completed a PhD in Buddhist Studies.