======Introduction======
I am a 35 year old working professional, mother of two boys, ages 2 and 4. I work as a senior research technician at Corning Incorporated in the Optical Physics group. I have very little programming experience but have written, or should say, have edited small pieces of code in both Python and Matlab utilizing their image libraries for image processing. 

This is my first programming class. My goal is to learn more of the fundamentals behind the programs I currently use at work and the programs I am learning in this course to leverage my skill-set and increase my efficiency.