No longer as 'Lost in space', [my] Experiences got a 'kick-start', from Dec-24, subscription init and engagement into Codecademy learning: skillpath based (focus: Cybersecurity, Front End devel, Tailwind, Vite + React).
Hence 'Old-school Coder' had learnt HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. From skillpaths of Codecademy developed w/React
I'm still w/ passion for coding esp. learning the next sequel of 'Web Dev' related stuff.. esp. React (cards'n'buttons for instance). Thinking of the next step.

In my deep dark past [if u can call it that]:

• coding with 'UCSD Pascal' (i.e. in afternoon activities, way back in upper school years).
• 'crunching' data from db w/ product: Borland dBaseIV, SQL's SELECT FROM...query.

The kicks I got from other uni projects was not just number crunching (as statistics helps grasp db's attrib. data-field-values). Uni-yrs: my coding skills had advanced. I coded and compiled in C lang* [i.e. *C programming courses(2), part of the curriculum] got completed. I also built 'Hello world' web-page by plain use of html already using Linux for the purpose. Out of curiosity (&fun too!), I had the habit to study open source stuff of the time. [Eg. a project & its 'repo' discovery. Compiled the source code in RedHat (linux), i.e. Alsa-project (sound included as a kernel module)].
And more: good old Winamp could be ported to linux [from source]. I invoked Winamp from terminal, and alas! Common music could be played (at the time .mp3 was a new innovated solution, but it made a diff as disk space had been limited in PC's local storage) ; the RH distribution had been v.5.2/6.x]

I've been open for 'Web Dev' coding collaboration thru Codecademy, but it seems it might require brainstomring and a well defined target set [**should a tech-chall. not be that much of a 'wrangling' on the server-side]. And, in any such a scenario, collaboration is subject to anticipated free slots* [*in each-one's cal's]