In the early 2000s, I was a high school student eager to build websites and create designs with whatever free tools I could find. I taught myself HTML through sites like Angelfire and Freewebs, studied webpage source code on my Windows XP computer, and experimented with trial versions of design programs. Even then, I was driven by curiosity and a desire to understand the “why” and “how” behind things. Those memories matter because they reveal a lifelong desire to learn. Although my education and career did not follow the programming path I explored as a teenager, that drive to grow...