This post mainly describes my mindset and path from the spring semester of my freshman year through the summer.

Around the spring semester of my freshman year, I was still in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. During winter break, I worked as a volunteer and helped Professor 林博雄 with observations. During that time, I met 石恩. He studied physics, and we got along well. Later, Professor 林博雄 needed to find students to help with software work. 石恩 was working with the professor then, so he introduced me to the professor. I had always had some exposure to programming, but at that time my level was really just a bit better than average. Still, whatever—only by taking on challenges can you level up. At the time I vaguely felt that writing code would not be a problem. But to explain that, I need to go further back.

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