I am a 36 years old computer enthusiast and law graduate employed in the Hellenic Coast Guard. I've been reading about computers since I was 13 but never really picked up any programming language, since they always seemed like hard work for the given result. Until I stumbled upon Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi!

I've been a fan of this little computer since launch (I still have an original board working 24/7). In fact I work on Codeabbey and sometimes Project Euler as I progress on a Raspberry Pi 3 which I use as my main desktop machine these days.

Mathematica comes bundled for free with the Raspbian OS and after reading about what it can do, about a year ago, I decided to see for myself. And I'm still going, apparently!

Fast forward a couple of years, and I realised that in order to progress through the problems on this site I needed to do some homework. So I watched a course on Discreet Math (suuuper useful) on Youtube, specifically the Discreet Math I playlist on Youtube by the TrevTutor. I also watched the 6.006 semester lectures (Introduction to algorithms) from MIT Open Courseware, another golden resource. I remember reading on this site, that in order to complete 125, then required for a certificate, an experienced programmer would need 2-3 months. I was by no means neither experienced nor a programmer when I started, and it has taken me about 2-3 years to pass the 125 problems mark, so there. But now I feel like the carrot has been moved a little bit further out of my reach :). No worries though, I can keep chasing it, having fun along the way. And getting better of course.

I also thought it was a good idea to start learning Haskell, since it shares quite a lot of principles with Mathematica (they're both on the functional side of things) and I can use it on any old x86 machine, not just the Pi. This endeavour is still going slow however, till I reach Stargazer status at least. It is interesting though, and as any start, challenging.

Rodion should really implement scrolling bars on the profile page ;)