In my senior year of high school, I had the opportunity to take a year long CS class that really opened my mind up to programming beyond simple for-loops and conditional statements. For my final project in the class, I got to dive into to making a “Street Fighter” style game, using my classmates as the actors. This was a really cool experience for me, one of the first times in a school setting I was able to explore something I enjoyed and challenged me. Looking back on this game several years later, the code could definitely use some cleaning up, but I love how it is almost a time-machine into my younger self.