College Community Pasir Salak

The program

Kolej Komuniti Pasir Salak is a Malaysian community college in Perak. If you're picturing a glass campus with a startup incubator, adjust downward considerably. What it did have was a syllabus wide enough to touch everything:

• Web development: HTML, CSS, and PHP; the first time something I typed showed up on a screen and did what I said.
• Game development: Unity and Unreal Engine projects.
• Mobile apps: a toolchain from idea to installable.
• IoT experiments: wiring sensors to boards and arguing about why nothing lit up.

Breadth beat depth, and that was lucky

Nothing went deep, and in hindsight that was the point: four chances in two years to find the thing that makes you lose track of time. I was a mediocre student in the parts that required memorising and a much better one in the parts that required building. That gap told me something I didn't act on for another three years.

The habit that survived

The specific technologies aged out. PHP is not in my stack, and I haven't opened Unreal since. What survived is the reflex doing all the work in my career right now: when I don't understand something, I build a small version of it. That reflex carried me from a computer lab in Perak through the HYGR camera years, a Python bootcamp, and Gamuda AI Academy, to building AI systems professionally in Selangor today.