Being the amateur programmer that I am, I'm still admittedly in the early discovery stage. There
is no ego, no illusions of status or assertions of competency; I want to tackle computer science
in the interest to design applications which could make my real aspirations possible. Long having
subconsciously a magical idea of computing (unscientific) where perhaps the annals of its operation
were too sprawling and an introduction to these things wasn't attainable, I'm only now emerging from
the avoidant state. I use computers every day, and recognizing just how crucial applications and
such are to my productivity/entertainment, it's clear that if I wish to ascend at all this ladder
I'll need to legitimately learn concepts, languages, etc.

I'm content with starting small; it's been two years since I watched an HTML tutorial video and
began digging. I'm a hobbyist of a few different things; writing music, making videos, using
computers, etc. - I don't consider myself an expert in any of these fields. I didn't become acquainted
with any of these activities in an academic or employment-geared way, so for them to have stuck
speaks to my enjoyment of the tasks. I'd say my motivation to become a competent programmer is in the
interest of preserving my enjoyment of the hobby; for the first few months, making static HTML
webpages proved exciting enough (would've been more exciting if I was able to host those projects but
nevertheless) - almost two years later however it's not fulfilling anything. And my ambitions are
stepped - I would be contented sufficiently for a time to learn some quite rudimentary things and
deploy them, like a 'verbosifier' tool to convert self-defined acronymns into their verbose versions.
The Java language seems like a good path to find this out. Another small goal would be to create
manual animations of sorts (i.e. the 'I LOVE YOU' virus); C++ appears to be the route there.